Airport iStore Cleared for Takeoff

Nicole Martinelli ()

Airport iStore Cleared for Takeoff

The first Apple reseller is as good a reason as any to fly through Montreal’s Pierre Elliot Trudeau airport.

The recently-launched Boutique iStore, a petite 225 square feet, offers free Wi-Fi, an iPod bar as well as a few useful accessories, like the power cord you left in the office in a hurry to dash.

It’s the sister store to an Apple retailer in central Montreal, which gives some assurance that the operation isn’t fly-by-night — and that if you need to service on something you bought at the airport, you don’t have to trek back out there.

ifoAppleStore, a site dedicated to keeping an eye on Apple stores, said that Apple retail execs once mentioned the mini-store prototype might move into airports, but the concept was never expanded beyond the original nine stores.

With long layovers the norm, this is an idea whose time has come.

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  • Joe K

    Brilliant!!!

  • http://www.internetblogaddict.com/ InternetBlogAddict

    I was like… Buy a Macbook?? WTH?!? But yeah, great way to peddle off cables, headphones, cases. What they should do is sell a iPod loaded with music.

    http://www.internetblogaddict.com/

  • SAM

    They should have put it in Toronto. Every trip I’ve ever taken to Canada through Toronto has resulted in me getting stuck in the airport for at least 4 hours. Computers Down, plane not ready, ground staff not available, ‘weather’ (1/2″ of snow), etc. I now avoid Toronto’s airport at all costs, by far the worst airport I’ve ever travelled through.

    I would have loved an iStore in O’Hare last week, I felt like a bum asking a fellow traveler if I could borrow his charger for a few minutes to get some working time.

    InternetBlogAddict is right, they should sell iPods and iPod Touches preloaded with movies, music, and TV shows – Or have a kiosk that allows you to add that media to your device but have it show up as ‘iPod purchased’ when you plug it into your main sync computer.