Apple may have achieved a tech industry first with a rapid-launch store just in time for the South by Southwest festival. Plat.Form Real Estate partner Rance Wilemon said late Wednesday that Apple had reached a deal to have a popup store in the Scarborough Building at the corner of Congress Avenue and West 6th Street in Austin (map below) that would open on Friday, just in time for the start of the Interactive side of SXSW and the iPad 2 launch at 5PM that day. It would be leased for two weeks, the Statesman said, and would seize on the sheer amount of attention the
