Apple makes $6 billion net profit, sells 16.2m iPhones, 7.3m iPads

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disolitude said:

Squilliam said:

disolitude said:

No one can deny they make compelling products, but my biggest issue with Apple is the smuggness and douchebagery that their customers exibit every time I go to an Apple store...lol.

Never been in an Apple store...

Anyway you'd probably experience the same thing going into any luxury automobile dealer, only worse.

Except people that hang out in apple stores tend to be students who have too much allowance and are in general full of themselves.

If you have a problem and get a sad face on your ipod, you have to go to an Apple store and book an appointement at the "genious bar". Then when you're there on time, you have to wait in line with these brats for an extra 30 minutes since no one sticks to schedule... Only to have some dweeb look at your ipod, and then go to google on his mac and type "broken ipod sad face troubleshooting".

An hour later you get a refurbished device...I've had to replace 3 ipods within a year, all in this exact same way.

hmmm when i replsed my 2nd gen ipod (battery came loose inside the case), i just walked in, they confirmed i had apple care and gave me a new one, but that was years ago, still rocking my 4gen one right now.

 

its been years since ive been in a store for support. ive noticed a few dont have real bars anymore or apple techs working front line.

almost went to work in one, got to the second round of interviews for a new store, but was headed out of country for a month so it was a no go.

 

became an apple certified tech, and order my own parts and swap out when i have issues with my tower, and send the laptop off when it does. 2003 g5 tower with dual 2.0 cpus 6 gig ram. 2006 macbook pro  right after the intel switch, both are still going strong the tower hosts the vgc minecraft server now.