Google To Open Retail Stores To Compete With Apple Stores

Google is launching retail stores by the end of the year to sell its own products, we’re reporting over at 9to5Google. Will Google try to squeeze into the local Mall between the new Microsoft store and the existing Apple store? Will it be able to supplant some of Apple’s MacBook sales with its $249 Chromebooks? iPhones with Nexuses? Find out more.

• Cook: Apple Stores aren’t just stores, they are gathering places, entertainment venues, and Prozac (9to5mac.com)
• Apple Store also drops prices of refurbished Retina MacBook Pros (now start at $1359) and MacBook Airs (9to5mac.com)
• Tim Cook | Apple Town Hall meeting (9to5mac.com)
• Leaked video shows Google-made “Chromebook Pixel” with 2560 x 1700 touchscreen display? (9to5google.com)