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Ron Johnson, Apple’s senior vice president of retail stores, today said the company is more than satisfied with the performance of its retail operations thus far. “We’re very pleased with the stores’ overall performance and the inroads we’re making toward expanding market share,” he said. Apple this weekend will open a store in Palo Alto, California, its ninth store, and still plans to open 25 locations in total by the year’s end.

Destineer Studios’ Bold is now accepting $48.95 pre-orders for Age of Empires II: Gold Edition, the Classic and Mac OS X version of both Age of Empires II and the expansion pack The Conquerors. The game is scheduled to ship on October 31. The title holds price and feature parity with its Windows counterpart, according to Bold.

Apple has released Authoring Support 1.1.3, which lets third-party applications that support SDAP use Apple’s CD-RW drive, and adds support for a number of new CD-RW mechanisms, all of which are documented here.

Stepwise.com has published a list of “Potential Mac OS X 10.1 Gotchas” that covers a number of developer-related issues with the new operating system. These include Apache ceasing to function after the update, incompatibility between the 10.0.x developer tools and 10.1, and WebObjects incompatibilities.

MacMinute reader Ryan Salazar reports that MacDocs, a Mac specialist in Salt Lake City, Utah, burned down today. “I have some unfortunate news. I heard on the radio early this morning that a ‘computer store’ was on fire, and they gave the address. The address was very familiar, and come to find out, it was one of Salt Lake valley’s Apple retailers, MacDocs [site down].