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A fun look back at the Apple Cafes that almost launched three years before the Apple Store [Gallery]

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<p>When <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/steve-jobs/" target="_blank">Steve Jobs[/url] returned to Apple in 1997, it wasn’t long before he decided that transforming the retail experience was key to the company’s future growth. He almost immediately started cutting the Mac authorized retailer network, eliminating those stores he felt weren’t delivering the right kind of purchasing experience, and in 1999 began work on the <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/apple-store/" target="_blank">Apple Store[/url] project. The first store opened two years later in 2001.</p>
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