“Apple’s stylish stores and computers, all of which feature unrestricted Internet access, have become such the hang-out and gathering place for MySpace junkies that the powers that be have elected to block the popular social networking site from its systems,” Think Secret reports.
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re: Bob
i’m surprised your work actually allows myspace too, i know my work actually blocked it out right
I went to one recently to check up on some info, while away from home. I needed to get a bus sched and all websites were blocked. >.< I needed that schedule and there wasnt any place else to go 🙁
Mist of the little shits have Windows PC’s at home that are so busy being part of botnets sending spam that they wonder why their computers are so slow.
Macs are so fast…
Good decision Apple.
I wonder how it compares with Facebook useage? (Muxh more likely to be real Mac users in my experience).
Who gives a shit
The kids will still have photo booth to make them future mac users.
Unfortunately that’s an age where social convention and manners aren’t real dominant. I have many times taken my 6 year old into mac stores to play with them (a 21st century disneyland dad thing). BUT I always make sure we’re not taking the LAST computer and blocking serious customers.
But I am not a teenager (or so I think…)
Unfortunately most sites like Myspace are turning into C***.
Full of race hate posts towards uploaded-content from other countries etc.
Secondly blocking the site is good, hopefully those (kids) will now find-out & about how useful a computer can-be other then surfing the web! If not there are other kids arround
the world & within America that would die to own or use a computer for educatoinal & work purposes.
Most of the times I’ve gone into the Regent Street Apple Store in London to check out a Mac or demo a piece of software, I’ve had a long delay to get near a computer because of all of the foreign exchange students hogging the machines and checking their e-mails, booking flights, etc.
They’re such a pain in the arse.
It would be better if Apple reserved a number of machines in a ‘business/switcher’ area for those who just want to try them out…
I can’t wait to get a Macbook. How sad of me to look forward to getting a computer. I’m just fed up of my Windows machine. A pain in the arsehole it is!
Apple did absolutely the right thing here. Everytime I go to the Apple store…I swear some weird and creepy kid comes along and hoggs a Mac and surfs MySpace…you can tell that its MySpace becuase of the custom black page background with fluroscent coloured text which was made by some user…Its just so annoying. There are so many kids (young teens I would say) who do this, and it really does distract the potential Mac customer, who wants to try out a Mac. Its a good thing Apple is being proactive here, and is restricting access to the site before something stupid and inexplicable happens.
MySpace should be called MyHo’s. So many women have slutty images on their sites.
Yours truely,
DaPimp
Geez, what’s next? No looking at porn?!?
“Probably because they’re band from using it at home.”
Is that like, band on the run?
http://hop.com/
You know…I have never visited myspace. I’m on the internet everyday and never have had an urge to go there.
What’s so addicting about it?
I have MySpace blocked on my computers as well, just so I don’t accidentally somehow end up there. That site is depressing due to seeing how many youth are that dumb. Thank goodness there are still plenty of intelligent ones to make up for the stupid, ignorant ones that make up the bulk of MySpace users.
I’m always amazed at how badly people treat each other in these forums. Someone states their opinion, and they do so politely, and then someone who disagrees with it calls them “stupid”. Who raised these people?
MySpace is so yesterday.
The cool kids are all on Facebook now.
Get with the program. That Mac in front of you will not make you cool by itself. You have to do some of the work.
As I have seen with these responses… I too work for one of the TX Apple stores. The teens (most of them age 12-15) just snap their Photobooth and hog the iMac. When I sell a computer I have to literally move to another side to avoid the myspacers. They laugh and yell and when I’m trying to explain the importance of Applecare, .Mac, One2One, I’m fighting over the voices of 2-5 teens. On the note that they are potental customers, when will someone spend $1500 on a computer when all they do is myspace. These are not customers, they are called Free Internetters
MySpace my ass. The really cool kids are on dittytalk.com. Block that one Apple and you will have to answer to the Almighty. Nothing beats Christian alternatives to secular culture, especially music and social networking sites.
Thank GOD. It was annoying and it kept many would-be buyers from getting to look at and play on the Macs.
This is great.
I have lost count how many times I have been in an Apple store and asked the sales assistant to show me the new macs and have never had a chance to get near them because of the myspace junkies on the macs all day long.
I wonder how many sales Apple lost because of those junkies stopping people trying and then buying the macs.
Awwww….. =( I used to leave my page up on the 30″ displays when I was there. Damn you for thwarting my MySpace whoring. ;P
-c
MW: ‘series’ (of unfortunate repents)
@ Wisdom
Thank you, decency police!
The thing you have to keep in mind is that Apple’s stores are going to be absolutely mobbed soon with the launch of the iPhone. Not only will the new iPhone display take up additional computer space (the AppleTV already took up an entire section), but they want people in the store. With the MySpace kids, its almost impossible to take in there sometimes.
I’ve gone into our local store on a Friday night and 90% of the store was kids on Mac’s using MySpace, listening to the obnoxious music normally attached to it and making a bunch of noise using PhotoBooth.
And don’t try to tell me these kids are “future Mac users.” Most of them are in the store because their parents are too lazy to look after them.
If true, good move, Apple -thank you.
I think EVERYONE should block myspace.com
I’m sure that blocking MySpace is a big relief for all the Apple Retail employees who don’t have to chase the kids away anymore.
-jcr