Apple banning Facebook in all retail stores

[jk1002]

I think this is a stupid BS move. I am always wondering why I am so attracted to starbucks, in the end, I think it was that during my early days I brought in a pice of pizza, had a coffee and spend all day sitting there.

Yes that was prob expensive for them, but built a very positive brand mage.

I think one of the reasons I use Apple Macs is that they are cool in their stores, it helps me a lot that I can just pop in and check and anwser my email.
If they start acting like any other store, I certainly willthrow my apples out over time. brand Image does a lot, even though most don't want to admit and a loiterer may just buy one Aple notebok after another ....

 

[branjosef]

They just need to ban everything. How about have an empty store with nothing but annoying employees waiting to ask you for help the moment you walk in. "May I help you?" "No" "May I help you?" "No!" "May I help You?" "NO!!!" My favorite is the guy they hired out of pity or something. You now he doesn't belong there trying to help customers pick out a mac but he's there just mucking it all up. At the store I go to, it's a little old man who knows nothing about computers and reminds you of a walmart greeter who served in the civil war or N'am. The poor man gets so confused with that electronic checkout gun they use. "Oh Jimminy... Now how do you work this again" and good luck if he has to go in back and get you a computer. The man can't lift anything. I digress

 

[iphonolog]

Here's a thought. Do what the gyms do with their workout equipment: limit each person's time on the computer, maybe based on size of store and number of computers.

 

[drlunanerd]

They just need to ban everything. How about have an empty store with nothing but annoying employees waiting to ask you for help the moment you walk in. "May I help you?" "No" "May I help you?" "No!" "May I help You?" "NO!!!" My favorite is the guy they hired out of pity or something. You now he doesn't belong there trying to help customers pick out a mac but he's there just mucking it all up. At the store I go to, it's a little old man who knows nothing about computers and reminds you of a walmart greeter who served in the civil war or N'am. The poor man gets so confused with that electronic checkout gun they use. "Oh Jimminy... Now how do you work this again" and good luck if he has to go in back and get you a computer. The man can't lift anything. I digress

ROFLOL!

Welcome to the new Microsoft Retail Experience™

 

[iphonolog]

Roflmbao @ "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"!

 

[Benguitar]

I am 100% fine with it. I always feel awkward whenever I get on the internet at an Apple store using one of their computers.


*Walk in store, buys item I needed and knew ahead of time what to get, walks out*

 

[SamBrears]

Good

I'm glad apple are blocking facebook because when you are in a store and you want to have a play on a mac there is always people on macs updating there facebook. All apple need to do next is to stop people from using the Isight camera.

 

[jonhaxor]

i dunno - i kind of think it's a bad move for the uniformed .. see kids - facebook doesn't work and the camera stops working sometimes on a mac .. buy one!!

 

[Lyra]

About damn time too!

We had a meeting about this and it's taken quite a long time to get from there to here. But glad to hear it's going ahead.

When big businesses or just the regular Joe wants to buy a Mac, it's a pain in the neck to stand in line for people who's only purpose to hog a mac is to write emails, and going on facebook. It's not fair for those who wish to spend their hard earned money on a mac and yet they cannot even have a single minute to try it out because 12 annoying girls are chatting online with their facebook buddies. That or when you've got £41.000 to spend on behalf of the company you work for and you take more than 4 hours to shop, even though you pretty much know what you want before hand.

The computers have become dirty and some even broken, why Apple puts up with this in the first place is beyond me. The tables are dirty and I thought that they would at least clean the tables a bit more often.

Anyway, No more Facebook? THANK GOODNESS!

 

[Lyra]

i dunno - i kind of think it's a bad move for the uniformed .. see kids - facebook doesn't work and the camera stops working sometimes on a mac .. buy one!!

Emmm, if all they want is FACEBOOK then maybe a Mac is a bit of an over kill isn't it?

They can do Facebooking on their cellphones. Point is to get these unwanted group of people who deny others who wish to buy one and have been saving up for quite a while to experience how it is to use it. It isn't an internet hangout. It's a store, where they sell Apple products. They can check everything else online, but Facebook. Do you really think they won't by a Mac because of that?

If anything this should boost the sale of more macs... after all, too many people come to waste time on the mac just surfing online. Never giving the potential buyer a chance to say "THAT'S it, I want this machine now!"

 

[Tesselator]

http://tinycomb.com/2009/02/05/apple-store-bans-facebook-for-life/

Thoughts?

Personally, I'm glad they've made this decision. Less people just wasting time in there, more time for people to experience the computers.

Heh! Shows ya the difference in cultures! In Japan they encourage "time-theft and loiterers". But here thy call it marketing, sales, and training. They even put one free seminars here.

 

[Lyra]

It's time to kick those freeloaders out of the store... they make a mess, they leave garbage on the table, they have greasy fingers and one time I found ketchup smudged all over the trackpad on a white MacBook, just because some idiot kid had to check his facebook while eating his fries...

yeah, that's really nice..

Don't get me wrong, some people genuinely respect Apple for giving them the change to check mails, etc. But others just use it like they use their high school computers. No respect.

Thank THOSE freeloaders for this, don't be angry at apple, or disappointed. They gave people and still give people something special. If the only thing you do is come check your mails, chat with friends and don't buy anything... then maybe you should go somewhere else.

This is NOT starbucks. They don't sell cheap coffee and cookies. This is Apple we're talking about.

 

[Tesselator]

It's time to kick those freeloaders out of the store... they make a mess, they leave garbage on the table, they have greasy fingers and one time I found ketchup smudged all over the trackpad on a white MacBook, just because some idiot kid had to check his facebook while eating his fries...

yeah, that's really nice..

Don't get me wrong, some people genuinely respect Apple for giving them the change to check mails, etc. But others just use it like they use their high school computers. No respect.

Thank THOSE freeloaders for this, don't be angry at apple, or disappointed. They gave people and still give people something special. If the only thing you do is come check your mails, chat with friends and don't buy anything... then maybe you should go somewhere else.

This is NOT starbucks. They don't sell cheap coffee and cookies. This is Apple we're talking about.

Hehehe, you sound sooooo American.

 

[Lyra]

Hehehe, you sound sooooo American.

And yet I'm not...


Damn those Tom and Jerry cartoons when I was a kid!!

 

[Tesselator]

And yet I'm not...


Damn those Tom and Jerry cartoons when I was a kid!!

Hehehe, I think that's about right tho. Tom & Jerry I mean. It's like the cartoon version of The Decline Of Western Civilization...

On the one hand there's a bunch of adolescents who have no respect for themselves or others - probably due to their pot-smoking self-serving yuppy parents. And on the other hand there's store keepers not willing or able to engage their customers on a personal level as fellow human beings - no doubt due to their own pot-smoking self-serving yuppy parents.

So in the end I guess we'll get fascist militant behavior from both?

 

[Lyra]

Hehehe, I think that's about right tho. Tom & Jerry I mean. It's like the cartoon version of The Decline Of Western Civilization...

On the one hand there's a bunch of adolescents who have no respect for themselves or others - probably due to their pot-smoking self-serving yuppy parents. And on the other hand there's store keepers not willing or able to engage their customers on a personal level as fellow human beings - no doubt due to their own pot-smoking self-serving yuppy parents.

So in the end I guess we'll get fascist militant behavior from both?

Ha ha ha ha ha awesome

 

[scott523]

Last week I was walking past the Apple Store in King of Prussia and I swear I saw one of the MacBooks at the entrance on display showing the Facebook homepage. Interesting eh? lol

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

It's time to kick those freeloaders out of the store... they make a mess, they leave garbage on the table, they have greasy fingers and one time I found ketchup smudged all over the trackpad on a white MacBook, just because some idiot kid had to check his facebook while eating his fries...

yeah, that's really nice..

Don't get me wrong, some people genuinely respect Apple for giving them the change to check mails, etc. But others just use it like they use their high school computers. No respect.

Thank THOSE freeloaders for this, don't be angry at apple, or disappointed. They gave people and still give people something special. If the only thing you do is come check your mails, chat with friends and don't buy anything... then maybe you should go somewhere else.

This is NOT starbucks. They don't sell cheap coffee and cookies. This is Apple we're talking about.

If that's your problem then they should take Photo Booth out of OS X as that seems to be the bigger draw.

Starbucks? Cheap coffee?