The front windows of two Apple stores have broken in the past week, showering passersby with glass, and in one case causing injuries. At Beverly Center (S. Calif.), a woman tried to walk into the mall-based store while texting on her phone, but failed to notice that the door was closed. The tempered-glass door broke into thousands of pieces, and the woman was reportedly not injured beyond her embarrassment. At almost the same moment, a family leaving the Leawood (Kan.) retail store were hit by flying glass when high winds whipped the front door into the front of the building. The couple discovered they had been cut only after leaving the store, but their son was unhurt, as documented in a Gizmodo story and pointed reader comments. See the Beverly Center aftermath after the break.
A black plywood panel and stanchions greet visitors to the Beverly Center store after the texting-while-walking visitor ran into the door.
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The same… in Sanlitun Store (Beijing) the main door…
Man that SanLiTun store keeps getting boned. I wonder if Apple is looking again at these windows wondering what they can do to keep them from being the Achilles heel of the stores without substantially increasing store costs.
-Brian