when i worked at the apple store i remember when they blocked myspace... it was great!!! there were less shenanigans, and less teenies screwing around. it's a great step blocking facebook too now. the apple stores arent there for mingling, its not a cafe. they sell product. the specialists need machines available to demo software, hardware, etc for new and current mac customers. if computers are filled for socializing, they have come to the wrong place. apple stores are a business, bottom line. not to mention the bandwidth that gets used up and clogged from these vistors. afterall, the floor demo machines are all sharing a dsl connection at the apple stores, nothing fancy. even all the creative computers are on the same network.
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Apple banning Facebook in all retail stores
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Well, so what, not ALL have banned them...
They can ban it at the store I frequent - it's a small store and there's just not a lot of machines to go around for all the visitors...
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actually, the apple stores need facebook to demo its interaction with iPhoto '09 . there is probably something wrong with the stores you are visiting. it is not blocked, myspace however is.
actually, the apple stores need facebook to demo its interaction with iPhoto '09 . there is probably something wrong with the stores you are visiting. it is not blocked, myspace however is.
Using facebook in an apple store because your girlfriend is acting a little grouchy and having mood swings = period 
Wow..if they made apple stores "18 and older only" then we could have alcohol with mild violence, suggestive language and brief frontal nudity. It will be like a real life quenten tarrantino movie. They could can Justin long and John Hodgman and replace them with Samual L. Jackson and Dave Chapelle. I could see the commercials now ...
"Hello, I'm a mac.. Motherf**ker!!!"
"And I'm a PC ...B*tch!"
Ah, to be king for a day...
Wow..if they made apple stores "18 and older only" then we could have alcohol with mild violence, suggestive language and brief frontal nudity. It will be like a real life quenten tarrantino movie. They could can Justin long and John Hodgman and replace them with Samual L. Jackson and Dave Chapelle. I could see the commercials now ...
"Hello, I'm a mac.. Motherf**ker!!!"
"And I'm a PC ...B*tch!"
Ah, to be king for a day...
HA! I didn't want to be the first to say I do this also. If there is something you want to look at, stand in line, works everywhere else. Or asking someone how fast the computer is at whatever they are doing.
The Apple stores I have been at never even had iPhones that could make calls, but to be fair, I have only tried twice. But the last time i tried was only about 2 weeks ago, then once about a month after the first gen release.
I haven't experienced that at all. I use it as a way of keeping in touch with people - why would I "grow out of that?" Do people grow out of emailing each other or sending texts?
Actually I didn't go into an Apple store until after I had bought my first mac, that being a 17" MBP and I didn't buy it direct from Apple. For me the Apple store is a convenient place to buy software or accessories, but I don't think I would make any serious purchases in there simply because of the congregation of retards and kids that always seem to be in there. Apple have some serious problems they need to address if they are ever going to really take on the PC. However as much as I love my mac Apples will never overtake PCs and that is mainly down to Apples attitude nothing else. You go into any other computer store and you can't just mess around on social networking sites etc yet they still manage to sell more units than Apple, don't even get me started on meeting actual consumer demand (rather than telling consumers what they want) or over pricing!
yes, but isnt this the market apple should be targeting? you probably already own a mac, so why would you care if "they" are on the macs for long periods of time.
what are you really going to do on the instore demo units? see how quiet they are? run programs? type? send an email? video edit? chances are..probably not.
apple has those demos to let users play around, and if they want to photobooth and facebook, go ahead. it gets them familier with macs. Long run, it will get them "hooked" on macs.
if anything, they should ban current mac users from using macs, but then that would be an even stupider idea? thats about the same logic as the banning of facebook
The reality is, that most teenagers can't afford to buy a computer, much less a Mac. There are some teens (like me) that can afford to spend thousands of dollars at the Apple Store each year, but most will only buy an iPod Nano, and be done with it. Whereas I have bought $3000 worth of merchandise over the past year and a half. Stupid idiot popular girls who treat the Apple Store like a Internet Café shouldn't be allowed to use Facebook, Myspace, etc.
Don
No, I'm simply pointing out that there are some teens that use the Apple Store for its actual purpose, but that most teens only use it as an internet café. Apple shouldn't ban teens outright (as was mentioned earlier), but that they should take measures to stop the store from being used as an internet café. I'll edit my earlier post.
Dom
Posters who feel they have a need to declare how much they spent at the Apple Store should not post at all.
It's not that I'm bragging. I'm just trying to say that some teens actually use the Apple Store for its purpose (to buy things).
Don
i think this is great! i dont have to see all these wannabe middle school kids and high school underclassmen crowding up the apple store when im trying to get inside to WORK!
Yeah, you listed very specific things.
And I removed the list, afterwords. I had no intention to brag. I don't know what else you want me to say.
Don
"To buy things" was actually not Steve Jobs' original main goal for the Apple Store. As he introduced it, the emphasis was on trying out Apple's products, doing anything you want on the Internet, running your favorite programs, bringing your kids to play games, actually experimenting creating media content, and getting your questions answered. Check it out, it's an interesting blast from the past:
http://www.edibleapple.com/flashback-steve-jobs-introduces-the-first-apple-store/
"Hmmmm, I wonder how this internet browser works?"
*pretends that s/he has just discovered the internetz for the first time*
*pretends that s/he has just discovered the internetz for the first time*
for everyone adding to the list of "great! next they need to ban..."
That would just be bad business. They want to keep the atmosphere of coming in and playing on the computers.
for the people who say banning facebook is killing the atmosphere that they were trying to create.
it's not. people will still come in and hang around and check email and so on. the internet has plenty of things to keep people mindlessly entertained. sure people will complain that they can't get on facebook and they'll keep complaining as they check their email and do whatever else until eventually they get distracted and forget to keep complaining.
so the impact this decision has on the apple store vision is minimal. if you think about it.
I don't know about the logistics, but i would consider having the computers in the front of the store accessible to facebook. just to get people gathered there to make the store always look full. then again that could backfire and make people think it's too crowded to go in. BUT then again...(continue ad naueseum)
That would just be bad business. They want to keep the atmosphere of coming in and playing on the computers.
for the people who say banning facebook is killing the atmosphere that they were trying to create.
it's not. people will still come in and hang around and check email and so on. the internet has plenty of things to keep people mindlessly entertained. sure people will complain that they can't get on facebook and they'll keep complaining as they check their email and do whatever else until eventually they get distracted and forget to keep complaining.
so the impact this decision has on the apple store vision is minimal. if you think about it.
I don't know about the logistics, but i would consider having the computers in the front of the store accessible to facebook. just to get people gathered there to make the store always look full. then again that could backfire and make people think it's too crowded to go in. BUT then again...(continue ad naueseum)