Apple Store

An employee of an Apple store in Arlington County was shot and wounded yesterday morning during an attempted armed robbery in a back storeroom as more than three dozen shoppers and other employees milled about the showroom. The shooting occurred about 10:15 a.m., shortly after the store opened. Arlington police said the suspect rang a doorbell at a back service entrance of the store at 2700 Clarendon Blvd. in the busy Market Common outdoor shopping area. A 26-year-old female employee opened the door and was shot, said Detective...

I like to think of myself as pretty darned tech-savvy for an older guy. It's only rarely, though, that I get to show it. One day recently I arrived at the Apple store with my computer and a question so complex I worried I'd have a hard time explaining it, even to the experts at the immodestly named "Genius Bar. " The genius who was assigned to me seemed very young. I told her that I am writing a book and doing it on my four-year-old laptop, meaning that for safety's sake, I employ an external hard drive, on which I save the contents...

Get excited. Apple has taken down its online store and put up the telltale yellow sticky note promising that "We'll be back soon. " The company always takes its online storefront down ahead of a big product launch to build anticipation and let its most loyal fans know to look out for something new. With just hours to go until Apple starts its much-anticipated media event that's expected to reveal the next generation of the iPad, it's no...

Apple has reportedly given the okay to its retail stores to price-match iPhones sold by other, authorized sellers. Citing an unnamed source, MacRumors reported Thursday that Apple stores will price-match the iPhone 4 to as low as $49.99 and the iPhone 4S to as low as $149.99, posting a document that says customers can ask for savings of nearly $50. Those are the prices Sprint is currently offering in a promotion on the iPhone for a two-year...

Protesters descended on Apple stores around the world, including in Washington, on Thursday to protest labor conditions at the company's manufacturing facilities in China. The issue has become a thorny one for Apple after the factories that make its products experienced explosions in 2011 and worker suicides in 2010. A recent report in The New York Times contained graphic descriptions of cramped working conditions and the voices of workers who said they were suffering injuries from repetitive motion and...

You might have noticed that Granny Smith has plenty of new company in the apple bins these days: Zestars, Elstars, Macouns, Mutsus, Ginger Golds and more. To a large extent, farmers markets are feeding the demand for different varieties. "It's a way of distinguishing ourselves and getting people interested," says Mary Margaret Kuhn of Kuhn Orchards in Cashtown, Pa., which sells its fruit at markets in Alexandria and at 14th and U streets NW. Thirty-seven years ago, her family farm grew six kinds of...

The Apple Store employees were closing up for the night. One of them heard strange sounds from the other side of the wall: grunts, thuds, hysterical screams. "Talk to me. Don't do this," a voice said. "Talk to me. What's going on?" "At that point, there was some more sounds, kind of, screams, yelps, yells," Jana Svrzo, a manager at the Apple Store in Bethesda, said Friday, testifying on the third day of Brittany Norwood's murder trial in the killing of her Lululemon...

The new iPad hit shelves around the world Friday morning, and across the globe, customers are swarming Apple stores to buy one. Photos of the crowds show that customers have gone to great lengths to be among the first to step into the store Friday morning. In London, they're stuffed like sardines behind a barrier gate; in Tokyo, some have slept overnight in sleeping bags on the sidewalks. The fervor may not be surprising since there've been similar scenes for the launch of...

Not long before police say Brittany Norwood stabbed and bludgeoned Jayna Murray to death last month inside the Lululemon Athletica store in downtown Bethesda's high-end shopping district, the two were the perfect sales team. Murray was showing regular customer Janay Carlson items from the store's posh running collection when Norwood walked over to chat up Carlson and help put her at ease. Norwood brought up a top Carlson had recently bought at the store. "When...

Fake blood? Latex masks? Watching "Halloween 3" reruns with buttered popcorn popped in trans-fats? Nah. Let me point you to something that will truly scare you — and it's not another Herman Cain campaign ad . It was the testimony given in a Montgomery County courtroom last week. Geniuses working at the Apple store in Bethesda heard bone-chilling screams, grunts and thuds coming from the Lululemon Athletica shop next door to them one night last March. The...

Earlier this year Apple rejected an app, Geometric Porn , that featured squares, triangles, circles, and even rectangles in juxtapositions reminiscent of intercourse. Fairly tame stuff, one might think, but it contravened both Apple's and Google's app store guidelines. Some surfing on the app store turned up some surprising images. And it turns out that the stealthy way to sneak erotic images past Apple censors is via the Catalogs section of the app store. This is Geometric Porn: inspected and rejected.

On Aug. 4, the performance of "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will be followed by a discussion with Apple co-founder and Silicon Valley whiz Steve Wozniak and the monologue man himself, Mike Daisey. Tickets for the event start at $100. It is the most expensive ticket to see Daisey, ever. That might sound like a lot for a play and a Q&A session, but think of it this way: At the Apple store, $100 gets you basically nowhere, unless...

The Apple online store is down for updates, which always indicates that new products are on the way. Well, almost always. It certainly would make sense, as Apple is expected to make at least a couple of big announcements Monday at its Worldwide Developers Conference. The most recent rumors about the MacBook Pro and the timing of the update make a laptop refresh the top candidate. New MacBooks are supposed to have a retina display, better graphics, faster processors and a thinner chassis.

The Nest smart thermostat may soon by sitting on an Apple store shelf near you, an appropriate move for a company created by the former senior vice president of Apple's iPod division. iLounge is reporting that the thermostat, which has gained much popularity in the connected-home-device category, will be sold at Apple's store for the same price on its website, $249. The thermostat proved that popularity when it was first made available for purchase. It quickly sold out of available...

The new iPad hit shelves around the world Friday morning, and across the globe, customers are swarming Apple stores to buy one. Photos of the crowds show that customers have gone to great lengths to be among the first to step into the store Friday morning. In London, they're stuffed like sardines behind a barrier gate; in Tokyo, some have slept overnight in sleeping bags on the sidewalks. The fervor may not be surprising since there've been similar scenes for the launch of other recent Apple...

Apple's third-generation iPad will be available to consumers Friday, and The Verge offers some tips to help customers get the much-anticipated tablet: Buying direct from Apple: get ready for a line The first, and probably most popular, option for purchasing the new iPad is at Apple's own website. Unfortunately, shipping times quickly slipped past launch day , and you'll wait two to three weeks for all models if you order now. The next obvious option is heading to an Apple store on launch day. Apple's...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, launched in 2010, snaps hi-resolution pictures of the sun every 12 seconds, providing a wealth of data for scientists eager to understand and predict solar flares. You can view the latest images on your Android or iPhone with a free NASA app. Just search for "SDO" at the Android market or "3D Sun" at the Apple store. — Brian Vastag

When the Apple store went down this morning, there were rumors swirling that a new iPod Shuffle would appear when it went live; those rumors were right. The latest iPod shuffle comes equipped with 4GB of memory priced at $79.99 and a sleek case that's reminiscent of the first generation. Best of all, the shuffle now speaks the name and performer of the song since there still isn't a screen on the least expensive iPod. Expect the new iPod to ship 3-5 business days after purchase.Read on for the release.

Get excited. Apple has taken down its online store and put up the telltale yellow sticky note promising that "We'll be back soon. " The company always takes its online storefront down ahead of a big product launch to build anticipation and let its most loyal fans know to look out for something new. With just hours to go until Apple starts its much-anticipated media event that's expected to reveal the next generation of the iPad, it's no...

Dozens of protesters around the world gathered Thursday at Apple stores to call attention to reports of poor conditions in its supply chain factories in China. Demonstrators delivered two online petitions with a combined 250,000 signatures to Apple employees at stores in Washington, D.C, New York, San Francisco, London, Sydney and Bangalore. As expected, about a dozen people showed up to demonstrate outside the Georgetown Apple store. They were — as my Post colleague Katie Rogers noted — outnumbered by...