Tis The Season: Apple Online Store Decked For The Holidays

Check those calendars... It might not even be the middle of November quite yet, but in the retail world, we are now into full-on holiday mode. The proof? The Apple store has been tweaked to show Apple is ready to meet your holiday needs. The site features holiday gift cards, touts the free engraving service for the iPod, and signature gift wrap options.

Ho,ho, ho!

Multi-Channel Gift Card from Apple

I don't want to make too big of deal out of this, as it may have been Apple Retail policy for some time now. However, I purchased an Apple Store gift card at the local Apple Store today, and on the receipt, it was listed as "Multichannel gift card." This could simply be a change to the way gift cards are differentiated in the store (vs. an iTunes card) or it could indicate a new multi-purpose gift card that could be used in the store, for iTunes, or maybe the new App store...

Rampant speculation, but at least it's not more iPhone news...