Mr. Grasser also acknowledged that the new stores' success would depend on attracting customers who do not already drive to Denver to shop at Home Depots there.
Stacey Widlitz, a retailing analyst with Pali Research, summarized the dollar-store success story: "They're killing it because consumers are trading down".
He raises a number of good points for why Apple may not be able to replicate their current App Store success with this new desktop store.
Sony's retail strategy, in many ways, seems to be taking cues from Apple's in-store success over the past few years.
And, as always, the company has released new findings related to app store trends, this month offering up advice on different strategies for app store success, whether developers are focused on high user numbers, revenue or niche markets.
When I asked what he had in mind, he pointed to Swipely's most recent upgrade, which added a reputation tracking feature and analytics for measuring the in-store success of online promotions.
But while some might argue that the most obvious marks of app store success are download numbers and sales figures, ABI has chosen two other parameters to measure how well app stores are performing at the moment: implementation and innovation, which it scores on an overall scale of 100.
The United States has had its fair share of thrift store success stories as of late, what with a Renoir turning up at a flea market and a 20th century abstract masterpiece surfacing at Goodwill.
Apple and Google, of course – the makers of the app store successes which WAC aimed to topple with its web runtime technology.
Somehow, Iran's foresight and success at storing so much water is considered terribly unfair, despite the fact that in Afghanistan yet another canal — the Lashkari — diverts every drop of the Helmand River (except during the early spring, when it floods) directly to Zaranj before it even reaches the border.
