“We set the stores out to reach the 95 percent who had never bought an Apple product.”

Afford Anything | Get Smarter With Money · Steve Jobs Hated the Name “Genius Bar.” How He Came Around, with Ron Johnson

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Chose mall locations for Apple Stores to reach the 95% of people who had never bought an Apple product

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