re: Does anyone treat going to Apple Store as if he was a kid going to Radio Shack?

Proudly, I've never stepped foot in an Apple store.

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You serious Clark? A store that spoon feeds pre-packaged fashion tech vs a store that I could buy individual resistors, capacitors, and diodes to solder my own gadgets together? Radio shack was for actual nerds.

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If the movie BlackBerry is accurate, those guys made the first smartphone prototype from parts they bought at Radio Shack. It was incredible.

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locked in ecosystem, romper room for kids playing in ipads in the corner and lots of snotty arse apple nerds walking around making you feel cheap for not buying a $4000 vr headset.

Jim at Radio Shack (Twin City Mall IFKYK) let us run wild; we rifled through bins of all kinds of doodads you could probably make a nuclear bomb with the shite they had at radio shack and he would let us sit in front of the TRS-80 for HOURS writing BASIC programs.

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This is similar to my own thinking.

The Apple Store convinces you that anything you want to do in the outer world can be done with whatever extraneous peripherals that flow towards their core products: iPhone, iPad, MacBook, & iMac and their supporting infrastructure. It always points towards Apple and being part of the ecosystem.

Radio Shack was open-ended and outward facing. Gadgets, tools, electronics, and components you never imagined would captivate you and stimulate creative thoughts of what you might do with them when you left the store (ecosystem) and applied them to the outer world.

Radio Shack and the Apple Store are diametrically opposed philosophically with where they direct your attention.

I don't hate Apple... in hindsight, I sort of wish he'd succeeded to a greater degree and beat Bill Gates before that arse dominated the PC OS market, but that's a topic for another thread.

Heck nah! Apple Store is sterile as hell, boring & costs you a ton when you actually purchase something. As a Kid I could explore radio shack & kill some time when my Mum was shopping

No. There was nothing in radio shack near the prices of Apple products. Most overpriced products ever other than Nike shoes.

Pre-90’s, before RS became a glorified cellphone store, it was fun to explore because of all the gear, parts, and kits for electronic activities. It was a great place to explore things like ham radio.

Apple stores are just upscale boutiques for rich people.Theres no wonder about it at all.

No, when I would go to Radio Shack I’d get my card stamped for a free battery. Apple doesn’t give away free batteries.

The coolest things in the Apple Store are in the back left devices that are actually not Apple products.

I don't remember flash mobs looting Radio Shack from my childhood.

No Apple Store can compete with even this one item.