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A Visit to the Apple Mothership Store in Cupertino

Posted 08/16/2007 at 7:31:10am | by Roman Loyola

You probably won't see Steve Jobs while you visit The Company Store, but you can get stuff that'll tell everyone that you are an Apple fanatic.

No, the store clerks do not fill your new water bottle with Kool-Aid.

When you use an Apple logo pen, it automatically makes your handwriting look like Lucida Grande Regular.

These shirts were on clearance ($4.50!) when I visited. I would've bought one, but they were out of my size.

Hello, I'm a Mac. And I'm a PC. And I'm a hipster parent who likes to dress my baby in clothes decorated with pop culture clichés and icons, just to prove that I can be cool and raise kids at the same time. Isn't my baby soooo cute!

Don't be surprised if unknowing strangers ask you about anal probing.

You can also get Apple logo hats, dress shirts, hoodies, mugs, and more. The Company Store is open to the public 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Get directions.

COMMENTS: 15

TAGS: Hilarious, Apple Inc

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You may not see Steve Jobs...
Submitted by Edsel (not verified) on Thu, 2007-08-16 09:06

You may not see Steve Jobs at the store, but when I visited last June, Phil Schiller walked in with a bunch of other suits and was showing them the company store. So you never know who you might see next...

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end of an infinite loop?
Submitted by Frank (not verified) on Thu, 2007-08-16 12:21

Roman said, "The Company Store is at the end of Infinite Loop."

How can something be at the end of an Infinite Loop??? ;-)

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you got it RE: infinite loop
Submitted by rloyola on Thu, 2007-08-16 14:08

I was wondering if that caption was too subtle for anyone to catch...

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Yeah
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 2007-08-17 21:21

I thought that was really funny. The end of Infinite Loop.......woah.

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geometry musings
Submitted by Paul (not verified) on Sat, 2007-08-18 10:40

maybe like how parallel lines meet at infinity...who knows!

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Nice. I was just there two
Submitted by duskyyouth (not verified) on Fri, 2007-08-17 08:03

Nice. I was just there two weeks ago. I picked up a dorky "i visited the mothership" t-shirt and a coffee mug.

i'm actually wearing the shirt and drinking coffee out of the mug as i type this.

one thing i found interesting, when i was there, there was no iphone on display.

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I would love to go there
Submitted by Tim (not verified) on Fri, 2007-08-17 12:52

I would love to go there someday but living on the opposite coast makes it a little difficult. So how much do they charge for a shirt, for example? Is there any list online of everything they sell at the store? Apple would make a killing if they started selling this stuff online, but then I guess it wouldn't be as cool.

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The end of infinite
Submitted by Neil Anderson (not verified) on Sun, 2007-08-19 11:39

Good thing I live far away from the mother ship or my finances would come to a quick and finite end.

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a possibility....
Submitted by Mac4Lifer (not verified) on Mon, 2007-10-08 11:58

It could be quite possible, for those of you who are out-of-the-loop (no pun intented.... well, what the hell, yeah it was!)that Infinite Loop could quite possibly be, by some freak-of-nature chance, the name of the street that the company store resides on. Or, maby not....

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Is it possible to purchase
Submitted by Matthew (not verified) on Mon, 2008-05-05 04:23

Is it possible to purchase like Apple iMacs or iPods at the headquarters?

Seems to me that I cannot find any information as to whether this is possible.

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Yes they sell them there,
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 2008-05-16 05:09

Yes they sell them there, any chance you are going or live nearby? can you see my post below

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lost Hat
Submitted by Dave (not verified) on Fri, 2008-05-16 04:50

Hi All, Just wondering if anyone can help me out, I recently travelled to mac world 08 and also went to cupertino to visit the mothership, I purchased a couple of items and also a Apple logo cap, I didnt take the hat off till we went to a restaurant later and I accidently left it there walked out the door realised it was gone, walked back in and someone had stolen it. Now im not asking for charity but if someone while visiting the store can grab a hat for me and post it to me I would be sincerely grateful. I live in Australia so its pretty hard to drop in one afternoon and grab a replacement. can anyone please contact me at dcoupe@mac.com if they are going to the Apple store in Cupertino in the future. Thanks Heaps

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Hey Dave, I might be going
Submitted by Matthew (not verified) on Thu, 2008-05-22 02:52

Hey Dave,

I might be going to the store in the future, but no promises.

Was just wondering if there are like staff discounts at the store.

Are there such discounts? Cos I don't want to bring like a ridiculous amount of cash there just to buy a Macbook...

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Is nobody here familiar with
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2008-06-03 16:34

Is nobody here familiar with http://missingbite.com/

You can buy a lot of Apple logo stuff from there.

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