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Apple banning Facebook in all retail stores
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http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/02/06/apple-has-not-banned-facebook/
mods..this is a forbes article about how the rumor is false..apple PR states nothing is banned in all stores. anyway of getting this posted or something? I mean this whole thread is about untrue stuff...i know its just for discussion..but it can be misleading to the innocent noobies.
mods..this is a forbes article about how the rumor is false..apple PR states nothing is banned in all stores. anyway of getting this posted or something? I mean this whole thread is about untrue stuff...i know its just for discussion..but it can be misleading to the innocent noobies.
Has someone robbed you of the ability to form a semi-coherent post? Or is it some kind of minimalist poetry?
I, for one, am glad to see this. Although I am on Facebook, I do tire of the uneventful tripe that people deem important. Please, update your status every five minutes and let me know how boring and trite your life is. "So and so is at the gym.". "So and so just had a great salad at Applebees."
Who cares?
It is a covenient way to maintain networking contacts and friendships that you don't really have the energy and time to invest in, but it is also becoming a way for people to share their little lives and inflate and affirm their own sense of worth and self-importance.
Man, that rant came out of nowhere.
Who cares?
It is a covenient way to maintain networking contacts and friendships that you don't really have the energy and time to invest in, but it is also becoming a way for people to share their little lives and inflate and affirm their own sense of worth and self-importance.
Man, that rant came out of nowhere.
Who the hell goes to Apple to go to Facebook and stay online for quite some time?
I mean, I have browsed on their computers to see how it reacted to a site so I get those going to facebook to see HOW it reacted and all that
But to go there and stay on the site for awhile? Really? Go home and do that
I mean, I have browsed on their computers to see how it reacted to a site so I get those going to facebook to see HOW it reacted and all that
But to go there and stay on the site for awhile? Really? Go home and do that
EDIT: Oops. Okay, it didn't happen (although, CNN doesn't exactly have a great track record either) but my point still stands.
Am I the only one who thinks that people who think that Macs suck because FaceBook doesn't work in the Apple Store are too dumb to own a computer?
(Or, you can just limit that to people who think Macs suck
)
I mean, really! If people are influenced that much by some loser screaming about how "Macs are teh suxorz" because the Apple store bans FaceBook ... those people are not likely to have the brain capacity required to run a computer.
Maybe I'm strange, but the first thing I would look at would be support for developing. So I would argue that Apple needs to have XCode installed and easy to get to on each Mac, along with Front Row, Photobooth, and other features of awesomeness. Even non-programmers would love XCode -- you don't need to know anything to make a dashboard widget!
Am I the only one who thinks that people who think that Macs suck because FaceBook doesn't work in the Apple Store are too dumb to own a computer?
(Or, you can just limit that to people who think Macs suck
)I mean, really! If people are influenced that much by some loser screaming about how "Macs are teh suxorz" because the Apple store bans FaceBook ... those people are not likely to have the brain capacity required to run a computer.
Maybe I'm strange, but the first thing I would look at would be support for developing. So I would argue that Apple needs to have XCode installed and easy to get to on each Mac, along with Front Row, Photobooth, and other features of awesomeness. Even non-programmers would love XCode -- you don't need to know anything to make a dashboard widget!
Isn't that the point though? Like chairs in a book store.... Maybe they just need time limits, or a section of computers with "serious" applications and blocked social-networking, e-mail, weather bug, IM, etc......
Personally I think its a good thing although I am not sure how much effect it will have in UK stores (if the ban applies in the UK).
In my experience in UK Apple stores most of the kids spend their time taking silly photos on Photo Booth. Of course Apple wont ban the use of Photo Booth but if they did there would be a lot less kids around!
In my experience in UK Apple stores most of the kids spend their time taking silly photos on Photo Booth. Of course Apple wont ban the use of Photo Booth but if they did there would be a lot less kids around!
I don't like this. It's really pretty stupid.
The first thing my friend did when he walked into the Apple Store was jump on Facebook on a Macbook Air and post on all his friends' walls that he was in the Apple Store on some cool thin computer.
If that's not great advertising I don't know what is.
The first thing my friend did when he walked into the Apple Store was jump on Facebook on a Macbook Air and post on all his friends' walls that he was in the Apple Store on some cool thin computer.
If that's not great advertising I don't know what is.
If I had a dime for every ******* I saw on a computer in an apple store who was on facebook for the entire time I was in the store, I wouldn't be typing this at work.
Man, if people who are too dumb to own a computer weren't allowed to own one, many of us would be out of work. And computers would still be in the stone ages.
Good for Apple!!
I don't understand the atrraction of facebook anyway. Why anyone feels a need to share information in this fashion is beyond me.
Young people these days!!!??? Not a clue!!!
I don't understand the atrraction of facebook anyway. Why anyone feels a need to share information in this fashion is beyond me.
Young people these days!!!???
Not a clue!!!My opinion?
There's nothing wrong with any store restricting which web sites people can visit on the demo computers. I've been to plenty of stores where the machines didn't even have Internet access at all. People still tinker around on them enough to figure out the approximate speed they perform at, etc. and they still buy them afterwards.
Apple tries to raise the bar by encouraging full use of their systems on the net -- but if a certain site is just drawing the wrong crowds in (people with no intention of buying at all, etc.), then it makes sense to block those sites.
That said though, I think Facebook is a really useful tool for those of us in our 30's or 40's. I always got the impression that myspace was the site taken over by mostly teenagers competing to see who could collect up the most "friends", and make the "hippest, coolest" backgrounds on their pages. By contrast, Facebook tends to look much "cleaner" and more professional on the typical user profile page one visits.
Sure, it can be a bit addicting - but as a late 30-something myself, I know how many of my old friends have drifted away over the years. Facebook was an incredible tool for locating most of them and linking everyone back together again. (Friends of yours see other friends you added who they also know, and then they add each other too, re-connecting the whole "chain" of friendship.) The "status" part? Sure, people update it with boring/dumb stuff most of the time. But as much as anything, it's a way to easily see that someone you know "checked in" recently - and over time, it really does give you a better sense of what your good friends do in a typical day.
There's nothing wrong with any store restricting which web sites people can visit on the demo computers. I've been to plenty of stores where the machines didn't even have Internet access at all. People still tinker around on them enough to figure out the approximate speed they perform at, etc. and they still buy them afterwards.
Apple tries to raise the bar by encouraging full use of their systems on the net -- but if a certain site is just drawing the wrong crowds in (people with no intention of buying at all, etc.), then it makes sense to block those sites.
That said though, I think Facebook is a really useful tool for those of us in our 30's or 40's. I always got the impression that myspace was the site taken over by mostly teenagers competing to see who could collect up the most "friends", and make the "hippest, coolest" backgrounds on their pages. By contrast, Facebook tends to look much "cleaner" and more professional on the typical user profile page one visits.
Sure, it can be a bit addicting - but as a late 30-something myself, I know how many of my old friends have drifted away over the years. Facebook was an incredible tool for locating most of them and linking everyone back together again. (Friends of yours see other friends you added who they also know, and then they add each other too, re-connecting the whole "chain" of friendship.) The "status" part? Sure, people update it with boring/dumb stuff most of the time. But as much as anything, it's a way to easily see that someone you know "checked in" recently - and over time, it really does give you a better sense of what your good friends do in a typical day.
