353: ‘Shop Different’, With Michael Steeber
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Special guest Michael Steeber joins the show to discuss his new project, The Apple Store Time Machine — an intricately-detailed explorable walkthrough of four of Apple’s original retail stores.

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Links:

• Michael Steeber’s homepage).

• The App Store Time Machine).

• Steeber’s first crack at the idea of recreating original Apple Stores virtually), this one using ARKit last year.

• Tabletops), Steeber’s newsletter.

• Steeber’s Apple Store Glossary).

• A 4-minute video from the grand opening of the Glendale Galleria Apple Store on 19 May 2001). Apple opened its first two stores that day — in Glendale, California and Tysons, Virginia. Customers waited for three hours to enter the store and were happy to do so.

• Signage outside the Lincoln Park Apple Store in Chicago), with “Apple Store” anachronistically set in Apple Garamond.

• Apple Marina Bay Sands), in Singapore. Just gorgeous.

• Apple Carnegie Library), in Washington, DC.

• Apple Tower Theatre), in Los Angeles.

• Apple Walnut Street), in always-sunny Philadelphia.

• Walnut Street ransacked) and burned) during the George Floyd riots on 30 May 2020.

• My Instagram photo of the employee-painted mural coming to life) on the boarded-up Walnut Street Apple Store, 13 June 2020. (Original JPEG), for posterity after Facebook collapses.)

• The finished mural).

• Bill Gates’s apparently apocryphal quote that “640K ought to be enough for anybody.”)

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.