I went to the Apple Store in my not-so-big town before lunch this morning to return an item I purchased at Christmas time.<p>Being 11am in January, there was nobody in the mall -- I grabbed a Starbucks (1 customer sitting down) and headed over to do my return. There is a rather long queue in front of the store and 2-3 Apple people taking names to let you in the store. Inside, there are probably about 100-150 customers. It&#x27;s literally like standing on a train platform -- packed. In the 20 minutes that I was waiting, I counted about a half dozen iPads, 5-6 Macs and about two dozen iPhones walking out the door.<p>Apple is still on fire -- when I worked retail in the 90s, January-April was death. Hardly any midweek business whatsoever. They probably did more business in a half hour than the CompUSA I worked at in 1998 made in a day in January.