The Real Tomorrowland: Apple Stores Get Almost as Many Visitors as Disney's Theme Parks

Today, Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke at Goldman's technology conference with analyst Bill Shope. Among other factoids, Cook mentioned that 120 million people visited Apple's retail stores last year.

I wondered how that stacked up against Disney's theme parks across the globe. It turns out, they're close! Add up all the Disney lands and worlds and kingdoms and 125 million people visited a theme park in 2011, the last year for which statistics are available

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Alexis Madrigal is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and the host of KQED’s Forum.