![]() ![]() “It was just as Apple was starting to get its cool back, and I didn’t have to defend my computer choices any more,” recalled Jeremy Johnson, who attended the 2001 opening in Plano. Could the momentum be maintained elsewhere? The Tysons Corner and Glendale stores were essentially prototypes and novel attractions for locals and dedicated fans. Steve Jobs had announced in May 2001 that twenty-five Apple Stores would open by the end of the year, but this location would be the true test. ![]() Boxed software and CRT monitors lined the black shelves and kidney bean-shaped white pedestals throughout the store, long before Apple’s iconic wooden tables appeared. There was no iPod, iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch. Apple Stores were still the subject of skepticism and doubt from press and analysts. The company’s first two stores at Tysons Corner Center and Glendale Galleria had opened less than three months earlier. When Apple fans lined up inside The Shops at Willow Bend on a Friday morning in August 2001, Apple retail was still an unproven concept. In their places comes a new store - Apple Galleria Dallas - that joins a network of more than 500 locations around the world sprung from that early success in Plano. Now, over 17 years later, Apple Willow Bend and its nearby neighbor in Frisco, Apple Stonebriar, have closed their doors. Those were the words Apple chose back in 2001 to introduce customers to a new kind of store experience that would shape the company’s future and the future of retail stores around the world. All Macs on display have Internet access and cool accessories plugged in, so you can try them out for yourself.” Twenty miles north of Dallas and located in the Shops at Willow Bend, the new Apple store gives you first-hand access to the latest Apple hardware and hundreds of popular Macintosh software applications. ![]() “Welcome to Plano, home of the first Apple store in Texas. ![]()
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