“For one 83-year-old grandma, the most confusing piece of technology at an Apple Store wasn’t an iPad or iPhone — it was the front door,” Kieran Crowley and Todd Venezia report for The New York Post.
MacDailyNews Take: She obviously didn’t see the new Apple TV UI. 😉
Crowley and Venezia report, “Evelyn Paswall, a former Manhattan fur-company vice president, claims the tech company’s signature glass architecture is a menace to little old ladies after she failed to see the glass door at a Long Island location and smashed her face. Now the Forest Hills, Queens, resident is suing Apple for $1 million, saying the company was negligent for not elderly-proofing the store’s see-through facade.”
“Approaching the store, Paswall didn’t realize she was heading straight for a wall of glass. She smashed her face against it, breaking her nose, she claims in her suit filed in the US Eastern District federal court,” Crowley and Venezia report.
MacDailyNews Take: Paswall? Not without a broken nose.
Crowley and Venezia report, “In her suit, she argues that Apple should have put marks on the glass that older people could spot before they come face-to-face with disaster. Paswall, once one of the top dealers in high-price Russian sable furs, declined comment.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, um, $1 million seems just a tad excessive, granny.
We have a feeling that Steve Jobs wouldn’t approve of safety stickers marring Apple Store glass. Perhaps there’s a more elegant solution. Maybe some etched Esslinger lines or, since Steve seemed loathe to look backwards, something similarly evocative, but more in keeping with the times: Instead of gauche circlular safety stickers, how about Home buttons etched into the glass? That way, grandmas are safer, and Apple retains elegance while also subtly reinforcing a signature product element.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
I rather expect that Apple has cameras covering the doors. Once that film come out, the case will be easy to decide. Particularly if she had to stop to steel herself for the impact.
My cat did that once- but he had the pride and dignity to pretend it didn’t happen.
(“I meant to do that!”)
Saw this the other day, cracked me up.
Dog hits glass, whimpers, then walks to mommy for comforting.
(That HAD to hurt..)
Cue the lawyers to sue this couple, instigating the incident and having the audacity to put it on the internet for others to see.
How ironic: Apple sued over windows.
Why doesn’t she sue Nature for making her age?
I’m sure this idiot with the poor vision is driving her own car to the Apple store, risking the lives of everyone around her without even giving it a thought. Can I sue her for that?
Fuck that…send her over to McDonalds for some hot, very hot coffee; leave her there and if she makes it back home, tell her to take some personal responsibility. This is such a bullshit case.
Brings a whole new meaning to FaceTime.
Apple should use her in FaceTime commercials.
“The Retina Display provides such “lifelike” pictures that Granny will shove her face throught The New iPad!”
This is THE SWEETEST Woman you would ever want to meet. She would give you the shirt off her back that she paid for without the help of a lawsuit. She had a very successful career. My guess is that some ambulance chasing attorney convinced her that she had to do this for the good of all seniors. Don’t’ you think your 83 year old Grandma could be convinced by some scheister attorney to sue? She certainly doesn’t need the publicity or the money. Good business courtesy by Apple would have been to pay the doctor bills, send some flowers and maybe give her the new ipad.
Nah~ This lady will rip the skin off your back and sell it for cash.
…Or turn it into a Napoleon hat and wear it out at dog shows.
imagine a country where u lived if someone walked into a door the government would pay for her rehab and then have a look at the glass make the call… change glass or get some glasses you silly old bag…. Suing?? Whats that?
Man I love New Zealand
Maybe the employee in charge of cleaning the doors ought to clean her glasses. This would make a great Windex commercial.
She’ll take the “special” iPad with really BIG pixels.
High quality glass is transparent – whodathunkit!
Someone should put ‘Intel Inside’ stickers on the glass wall. Hey, it’s the truth.
The Judge only needs to look at now many people enter an Apple store every single day around the world. How many similar complaints. This lady is simply embarrassed, so she’s trying to weasel some conform and relief via a payout. Sad.
*how, not now
*comfort, not conform
(MDN, after all these years, still can’t edit comments, sad)
I wish I had a nickel for every time I’ve turned into a clear plate glass window. If I did, then I might have a million dollars. So, I think that they should give her a nickel.
Apple making their windows really clear – sending a message that people can “see through the sh*t that is Windows”. haha
I dont think a person that can’t see good enough to walk into a door doesn’t need to be at an apple store….. Just sayin….
This is where I worry about apple going bankrupt! Night mares tonite 🙁
Apple Store doors must be made from Gorilla Glass…
What’s next? EVERY store is banned from having clear glass?
How about this, save everyone the trouble:
Just walk with your arms out if you can’t see sh*t.
What a god damn joke.
Think I will sue apple for $1 million for someone farting in an apple store.
Only in America can this sort of ridiculous thing ever go to court.
What an absolute joke!
Only in America can someone sue a company for walking into a glass door.
Open your eyes you bitch and look where you’re going!!
Jesus, tell you what – think I will sue apple for one of their customers farting in an apple store while I was in there.
Message to leaching vampire, failed business woman granny. GROW THE FUCK UP AND YOU AIN’T GETTING ONE CENT!
The chick was 83. Go have a lie down.
It is kInd of hilarious to watch a bunch of nerds go all Clockwork Orange on some little old lady.
With a name like Paswall, she must have thought she could walk through solid walls.
With a name like Paswall, she must feel she can pass through solid walls or in this case a glass door.
At eighty and above the problem Is no longer visual acuity but mostly depth perception so keep your hands ahead of you so you don’t get to hit anything.
There was a marking on the door….her snot