It is official as of today folks, the mastermind behind the brick and mortar Apple retail locations – Ron Johnson – has left to become the CEO of JC Penney. As announced back in June, the Apple Exec shed light on his plans to leave the fruit for the pant suit come November 1st. His bio is already missing from the Apple Executive Profile page. He will for sure be missed by us here at Gadgetsteria, as what he has given us by the way of retail stores is a thing of...

China has been cloning the Cupertino giant a lot lately. Both with iPhone clones as well as actual Apple Retail locations. Here we are posting another post about someone in China creating an Apple knock-off. This time it is an actual website. If you check here, you’ll see the China based online game company – Giant Network – decided to use the Apple website as a template to promote it’s online game ‘Zhengtu 2.” As you scroll through the...

The entire idea of Apple planting one of it’s retail locations in the World Famous Grand Central Station in New York just got a little more real. Apple has reportedly signed a decade long contract which will cost them $800,000/year, and will bump up over 1 million per year after. The new Apple location will be a massive 23,000 square feet — which for the record, is more than 3 thousand sq feet larger than their biggest location to date — and will span...

Apparently the iPhone 4 is a smashing success over yonder in China, for all of their brick & mortar Apple stores have completely depleted their stock of the popular handset. If you’re a Chinese resident and still want in, you’ll have to take your cash online if you hope to score any touchscreen action. Of course, if scalpers wouldn’t snap up every damn device that’s available and then resell them at exorbitant prices, we wouldn’t be in...

The next time you stop by the newest Apple store in downtown Chicago, be sure to check out the first ever “Apple Stop”. Currently, it’s the North/Clybourn station on the city’s Red Line train. But tomorrow after the Apple Store officially opens its doors for the first time, the name will *unofficially* change. If you think Apple is merely “taking over” a nearby city service, slapping an ad it, and calling it their own, you’re...