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Meh...
I have walked around in Rome, London, Paris, HongKong, Berlin, Frankfurt, Brussels, Amsterdam,Sydney, NYC, .....The old architecture and history of those places is stunning.... but the insides of any Apple Store is basically the same thing in a different place, as you say the tables are "Meh".
I just can no longer be bothered walking into the stores, I can get the same things from my local shop and a LOT more, for example I will be getting a RasberryPi 5 tomorrow from my local Apple supplier, try that in an Apple Store.

I am NOT anti Apple, I am typing this on a 16" M3 MBP with 1TB storage, bought from my local store, but I have walked past Apple stores now for 10 years. My first Apple Store was in NYC where I bought my 12" G4 MacBook 867Mhz IIRC.
My first Mac was a 512KE, but I have been using computers since the TRS-80 M1 Clone (which I still own), basically 40 years now.

As far as I am concerned the late '70s early '80s was the height of computer innovation, CPU options, Storage options, form factor , Programming, the operating systems, ALL really crude compared to today, but the variety of directions was just WOW. Now that too is Meh...OSX, Windows, Linux (of various flavours) where "new Emojis" are considered noteworthy...<BARF>

Point taken. Especially the last paragraph, though I missed out on the 70s.
 
The new Apple store in Tucson will be 3 times the size of the old one from what I saw a couple of days ago. The temporary store doesn't look temporary at all, but it's the same size as the old one I think (located upstairs).
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