Wow, this thread got off topic real quick. Way to bring down someone's excitement. Anyway, congrats on getting a store local to you. The closest store to me is 45 minutes or so.
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Apple iStore in india!
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they are sellin macs! they even had the mb air in stock.. ! my dad loved it .. he said he might nick his thinkpad for the air !!
At the risk of sounding dumb, I would still ask- do they have a Genius bar over there? I understand that its a reseller, and not a true Apple store, so just wondering.
What would you do when you need technical support- do they provide any services?
What would you do when you need technical support- do they provide any services?
hey congrats man! nore good things to come near you in the future lets hope! I have a bunch of Indian students and they are some of the nicest, smarrtest, classiest people I know
hey congrats man! nore good things to come near you in the future lets hope! I have a bunch of Indian students and they are some of the nicest, smarrtest, classiest people I know
ah.. university ? which one?
heh heh.. the first thing i did after i walked in was to ask if they had one.. unfortunately no
but they do have workshops as the usual stores.. for tech support they've got a service center close by .. but its been around for quite a while. ps.. they ship everything to a diff city to get it serviced.. but didnt have any issues on my mac till now!
That one great thing about Japan... they don't outsource it's customer service departments to some other country - Probably cause they can't speak Japanese?
Yeah... outsourcing does suck! Big time!
Especially when they access to your personal details like Bank account info...
No, I mean you just don't understand why he's excited, do you. The store is essentially an Apple Store. It was already mentioned that Apple must open a store in partnership with an Indian store.
Even if Apple wanted to open a store in India, this is what it'd look like.
Also, they never had an exclusive Apple seller of any sort before, and now they do, hence the excitement of the OP. It's not a big deal to you. You're absorbed in your own major "problem"*cough* of not having an official Apple Store. However, it seems like you can't be happy for someone else.
So what if Australia doesn't have a store in Australia yet. "Big deal", as you said. Of course, I'm sure you don't see yourself as someone who comes across as being rude.
It seems to be a lot of negativity going around here though I can´t see why. I think its awesome, applestore or not: they sell apple products and they are spreading the love
Exactly. The people who are being negative here probably always rain on everyone's parade. Maybe their lives are that sad. Who knows.
how are the prices when compared to Apple USA?
Did the sales boys r girls have good technical knowledge about the macs ?
i dont think so people can't waste money just on design in india as Most of them are Middle class people.
they can get 2 HCL laptops for the money they are putting in for MB or MBP
Did the sales boys r girls have good technical knowledge about the macs ?
i dont think so people can't waste money just on design in india as Most of them are Middle class people.
they can get 2 HCL laptops for the money they are putting in for MB or MBP
yea but with the booming economy ppl are movin from the maruthi cars to skodas ..so its not a big deal gettin a mac... its not expensive.. u wont believe how many ppl wanna get their hands on iphone,..
but you missing the mainplot
majority of the people are using pirated softwares (on windows OS) in India, when it comes to mac it hard to find pirated ones
majority of the people are using pirated softwares (on windows OS) in India, when it comes to mac it hard to find pirated ones
for mac.. u wont NEED to buy ! the best softwares for mac are mostly open source!...
mostly...
istore by reliance sucks.....
so far i went to two of istore by reliance ...one at hyderabad and other in chennai. frankly hyderabad istore is better.it is more well located and has a bigger space.. though the accessories they offer are not of wide range they maintain a decent show room.. ppl working there are indeed responsive unlike chennai branch.
when it comes to chennai ....i happened to visit istore to get a snow leopard upgrade dvd along with my friend who wanted to checkout some macs and wanted to know the prices as he wanted to buy one.
on reaching the store ..( i had a very tough time locating it.. it was in a not so apt area for an istore to be expected ) i foundout that it was a massive building with reliance office and in front side ground floor there was istore .as i went in i was disappointed to see a small (10 by 15 feet) room...
they had very few macs on display.... that too all old models... an old mac pro , an old imac,a new macbook pro,old macbook,old macbook air,old macbook pro 17'.... that's it...
i asked a sales person there " is snow leopard dvd available ?" he gave me a "No" in such a way that i was asking his wife for a date.... i asked another one when it would be available ... that bastard says " I dono "
WTF
was their payday postponed or wat?
another man walked in and asked for the new imac 27' ... it was not available yet.. a sales person told him "no"
"when will it be available "
" end of November"
"take the old 21 inch .... both are same"
Really were both the same?
Reliance is creating a shame on apple
brand.... it created a foul stores with name of istore ..... apple india must not allow to let such things happen ...
an online store for india will be great on apple.co.in
At-least reliance should teach some manners to its sales persons at their store........
BIG SHAME
so far i went to two of istore by reliance ...one at hyderabad and other in chennai. frankly hyderabad istore is better.it is more well located and has a bigger space.. though the accessories they offer are not of wide range they maintain a decent show room.. ppl working there are indeed responsive unlike chennai branch.
when it comes to chennai ....i happened to visit istore to get a snow leopard upgrade dvd along with my friend who wanted to checkout some macs and wanted to know the prices as he wanted to buy one.
on reaching the store ..( i had a very tough time locating it.. it was in a not so apt area for an istore to be expected ) i foundout that it was a massive building with reliance office and in front side ground floor there was istore .as i went in i was disappointed to see a small (10 by 15 feet) room...
they had very few macs on display.... that too all old models... an old mac pro , an old imac,a new macbook pro,old macbook,old macbook air,old macbook pro 17'.... that's it...
i asked a sales person there " is snow leopard dvd available ?" he gave me a "No" in such a way that i was asking his wife for a date.... i asked another one when it would be available ... that bastard says " I dono "
WTF
was their payday postponed or wat?
another man walked in and asked for the new imac 27' ... it was not available yet.. a sales person told him "no"
"when will it be available "
" end of November"
"take the old 21 inch .... both are same"
Really were both the same?
Reliance is creating a shame on apple
brand.... it created a foul stores with name of istore ..... apple india must not allow to let such things happen ...an online store for india will be great on apple.co.in
At-least reliance should teach some manners to its sales persons at their store........
BIG SHAME
Yikes, that sounds bad. I'll have to check out the iStore in Bombay next time I'm there.
Reliance is probably a good partner in terms of the size of the company, but I hardly see them putting any effort in selling and spreading Apple's vision. It's too bad, really.
irmongoose
Reliance is probably a good partner in terms of the size of the company, but I hardly see them putting any effort in selling and spreading Apple's vision. It's too bad, really.
irmongoose