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I just read a brief story in the online version of the Austin American-Statesman that talks about Apple possibly opening a retail store in the Barton Creek Mall [reg. req.].

The story mentions the fact that Apple has posted multiple Job listings for a Barton Creek location on their website including those for:

• Req ID: 2082561: Assistant Store Manager
• Req ID: 2082591: Full Time Mac Specialist
• Req ID: 2082606: Inventory Control Specialist
• Req ID: 2082605: Keyholder
• Req ID: 2082566: Mac Genius
• Req ID: 2082602: Part Time Mac Specialist
• Req ID: 2082547: Store Manager

The statesman.com story has this great opening line:

It looks like Apple Computer Inc. is about to open a store in Dell Inc.’s back yard.

To which I say “It’s about freaking time!”

Apple and Barton Creek both declined to comment in the story, but it’s pretty hard to deny that Apple is in ‘hiring’ mode.

[Thanks to Glenn for pointing this article out to me, and wondering how long it'll take some of the Mac sites out there to pick up on this story.]

update: MacNN got this story on the 12th of January, and ifoAppleStore noted it as far back as January 1st — I only read MacMinute now, and they missed it completely.

2nd update: MacMinute finally got the story 24 hours after I posted it. (so they were a little late on noticing this story, but I forgive them… thry’ve truly had much better reporting writing since Dennis Sellers starting working for them…)