Jailbreaking, Apple stores, and scare tactics

[advres]

I disagree. If you threaten your customer, they won't give you money. If you're going to threaten every person in the store that touches your demo, people aren't going to come to your store and buy your things.

I went into an Apple store yesterday and wasn't threatened by anyone. And even if I was, my business is built on Macintosh computers and the software available only on OS X. So, no I am not going to stop buying Apple products. Even if I find out they are using child labor to build my MacPro, I don't have the luxury to completely convert by business and infrastructure to Linux or Windows.

So, maybe YOU won't buy your next phone from Apple but I have spent more in my lifetime on Apple products than you ever will and don't see that trend changing anytime soon.

I'm sure they're bummed you won't buy the next igadget though.

 

[cherry su]

If only the iDevices had something similar to NetBoot on the Mac, then every morning they would start fresh and none of the damage would stay.

 

[mrow]

If only the iDevices had something similar to NetBoot on the Mac, then every morning they would start fresh and none of the damage would stay.

They do, at least when I worked there. Every night someone went around with a Macbook with a special version of iTunes that could restore multiple devices at one time and restored every device to the stock demo state.

The problem was it was done once a day at night. It's not going to resolve the issue until the store is closed when the products are screwed up and it's still open with customers in there.