Apple and Circuit City-- Again?

[Frodo]

http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2020

[rcannonp]

Though I can't stand CompUSA, I'll be a little bummed if Apple stops dealing with them. The Apple Store only carries their current offerings and act like anything before those did not exist. I bought a 23" cinema display the other day at the Apple Store, and I still had to go to CompUSA to get an ADC adapter to use it with my G4. I doubt that Circuit City will carry any of these type of things. I don't even know where there is a CC location.

The Apple Store here opened right across the street from CompUSA. It had to have killed what little Mac sales they had.

[Frodo]

Stores like Best Buy and Circuit City appear to be in a position to carry larger inventories than the Apple Store can, and therefore move more product. I still haven't seen laptops and towers anywhere outside the Apple Store other than CompUSA in a long time. The distribution seems to be limited to Apple's smaller toys.

I think that there are PC users who use iPods and iPod accessories who would never even want to enter an Apple Store. This entire move is really not as earthshattering to Mac users as it would be to the general market who is only catching on to what Mac users have known for some time.

Now if only Apple would give other dealers a better markdown margin instead of selling everything at high list prices, they might do even better with sales.