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From the gist of it it sounds like the Apple Store manager had a bug up his @. The way read the article, the kids were just using Apple's free wi-fi to d/l a 3rd party app onto their hacked iPhone. Best I can tell the s/w was shareware or freeware and the kids were not trying to use the network to steal the s/w. Apparently though using a hacked iPhone was enough to cheese off the manager who detained the kids and called the cops! No arrests were made, though they should have cuffed the manager for wasting public resources.
The manger tore the kids a new one then banned them from the store, even going to the length of taking their photos and saying they were being send to Apple Stores worldwide. What a jerkoff. I hope Steve rips him a new one. The article says the kids were later "unbanned."
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9420523?nclick_check=1
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The manager denies it now. He was being a bully but now it's backed up on him. What a way to treat loyal customers.
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The UPI version:
"An Apple Inc. spokesman has denied that four teenagers were permanently banished from all the company's stores by a Palo Alto, Calif., manager.
The four teenagers said they were detained at an Apple store for more than 2 hours and then were told they could never return to any of the company's stores, after they downloaded a third-party car racing game onto a store iPhone, the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News reported Friday.
The boys claimed the store manager called the police -- although no arrests were made -- and took photos that they were told would be sent to other stores.
Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said the teens are still welcome at any Apple store.
"They were not banned from that store or any other store," Dowling said."
Sounds like sound, fury, signifying nothing in the end. The kids get their fifteen minutes. Some people beat up Apple, some don't. Nobody but the players much remembers any of it a month from now.
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Sounds like sound, fury, signifying nothing in the end. The kids get their fifteen minutes. Some people beat up Apple, some don't. Nobody but the players much remembers any of it a month from now.
If the cops were called, hardly fury signifying nothing, as it cost taxpayers $, if nothing else, and for no good reason but to satisfy some manager's ego. It's hard to fabricate the police were called went they weren't. There are public records, you know, which note every time a cop makes an official call.
I am Apple fan as much as the next fanboy, but there are limits to my followhood. The manager was wrong. This isn't about Apple, it's about this particular manager. Apple, Inc. itself seems to want to distance itself from the incident.
If you read the story I posted it says the teens were not officially banned by Apple, but rather it was just the manager gone wild that banned them. Whether the kids were trying to get their 15 min. or not its and interesting story. I'm glad it got out to serve other haughty managers notice.
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[quote Chupa Chupa][quote Blankity Blank]
Sounds like sound, fury, signifying nothing in the end. The kids get their fifteen minutes. Some people beat up Apple, some don't. Nobody but the players much remembers any of it a month from now.
If the cops were called, hardly fury signifying nothing, as it cost taxpayers $, if nothing else, and for no good reason but to satisfy some manager's ego.
"... man, proud man,
Dressed in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he’s most assured,
His glassy essence, like an angry ape
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,
Would all themselves laugh mortal."
That's from "Measure for Measure", written over two hundred years ago. There will always be over zealous managers. Cops get called out on stupid trivial stuff 24/7/365; it's a blip on their radar. Nobody died, no students were brutally tasered. The kids get a spoonful of geek cred with their friends. The manager gets told to dial it down a notch. It will all be forgotten by the next news cycle by most people. Sound. Fury. Nothing.
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Steve needs to have a talk with this guy.
The worst they did is borrow a little bandwidth. Big freakin' deal.
Whenever I am in the Apple Store, I check my email and what not.
People need to get a grip.
The kids in question need to play it a little more low key and they wouldn't draw attention to themselves.
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The kids in questions need to *not* download apps onto an Apple Store's 'Phone.
Why does the manager's reaction mitigate the kids' behaviour? Steve doesn't need to talk to anybody. Oh, wait, we've all forgotten about the blue boxes. So he's no without sin.
I don't know what the story is. God knows the kids would never lie or exaggerate.
I am curious-- if they downloaded a game, and if it was a Store 'Phone, how did they get the game onto it? It seems to me that they would have to have "jailbroken" a phone that at the very least, didn't belong to them.
*IF* that's the case, the nightly "reimaging" of the computers wouldn't have cleared the app.
*IF* that's the case, calling the local constabulary wasn't so off base.
I'm also curious if the mean, wicked, trigger happy, old manager actually held them for two hours, banned them, yadda yadda. Certainly we can accept the helpless childrens' testimony as Gospel.
As I said, I don't know what really happened, but I think BB sums the whole incident up perfectly.
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Sounds like one of those stories where [ if you were tthere] your description would be more along the lines of : " a couple young punks and an older one beating thier hairy ape chests".
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[quote vision63]The manager denies it now. He was being a bully but now it's backed up on him. What a way to treat loyal customers.
No way to treat a customer, true, "loyal" is certainly a humorous qualifier.
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[quote guitarist][quote vision63]The manager denies it now. He was being a bully but now it's backed up on him. What a way to treat loyal customers.
No way to treat a customer, true, "loyal" is certainly a humorous qualifier.
I say if you've got 'em sucking on your teat right there at the store, they're pretty loyal. They come 'round just to be near your stuff, fiddlin' and fondlin' the precious "stuff." Apple say's jump and they say "how high."
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