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An Apple Store for Live Music
Brendan Gregory Brendan Gregory

An Apple Store for Live Music

Apple just opened a 600-person live music venue in London.

For a company that has spent decades making more of our lives digital, Apple remains remarkably committed to physical space. The Apple Store proved that making a place less necessary doesn’t make it less valuable—it just raises the bar for what that place needs to be.

Apple Music Hall might be the Apple Store for live music.

And there may be a lesson in there for the work.place.

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