“Inside every Apple Store there’s really only ever four things for sale. iPhone, iPod, iPad or Macbook,” Xavier Toby writes for The Sydney Morning Herald. “Which you can get at about a hundred different stores. In the same shopping centre. For exactly the same price.”
“There’s also the staff in that same shirt with hipster flourishes like over-styled hair, subtle tattoos and designer glasses who, if they didn’t work for Apple, would be selling Foxtel subscriptions, or raffle tickets,” Toby writes. “Then up the back are the ‘geniuses’. When they’re not at work, we all know they’re shooting at each other and designing farms and chatting up hot girls. Virtually.”
Toby writes, “At the register there’s always that one hot girl in black-rimmed glasses. The nerds are too scared to talk to her and she’s already knocked back all the sales guys since she’s dating the assistant manager. The Apple Store is like a really smug cult.”
The rest of the full article, which complains that his local Apple Retail Store wouldn’t give him a new iPhone for free even though he dropped his in a toilet, here.
MacDailyNews Take: If you stupidly dropped your iPhone into a toilet, but you’re too cheap to pony up for your mistake, wouldn’t it be best not to compound your stupidity and tightfistedness by whining about it in the paper?
The Sydney Morning Herald? I suppose that’s Sydney Australia, but I mean, really, who finds these articles?
Article is really a generous description. Excretion might be better.
That’s the most ridiculous article I’ve read today… The author is an uneducated douche nozzle.
Author claims to be a “comedian” so I see what he’s trying to do, but it utterly fails. Crickets at all the “jokes.”
He’s trying way too hard to find something funny about the Apple Store.
I did find it amusing that after all that, he supposedly went and bought another iPhone!
Nerds in an Apple Store! I thought Apple products were for the technologically challenged.
It’s obvious Toby used the “bobbing for apples” method of getting iPhone out of the toilet.
Those weren’t iPhones he was bobbing for…
Or even Zunes…
😉
This guy really seems like an uneducated duche. I worked at an apple store and almost everyone there was as far from smug as you could get. And yes you do get a bit more of the hipster stylings but that has more to do with apple being the favorite of artists and creative types. Also the fact that they never discriminated in there hiring because of wild hair or tattoos. I feel sorry for this guy, it must be hard to go through life with such a limited view of the world.
Apple really needs to start removing some of the part timers and replace them with volunteers
it was funny-lighten up fanbois
The thing I find the most difficult about the transition from print media is how much harder it is to wipe your ass with a computer monitor.
iPad.
Zune
I’m guessing that the writer used to own several Zunes, and didn’t realize that is the only brown mobile device that is supposed to go in a toilet.
What an idiot… I don’t think he’s actually been to an Apple Store, if he saw a cash register, with or without a “hot girl in black-rimmed glasses.”
Maybe the moron wandered into a Microsoft Store by mistake.
Yup.
Also, if you look at the blue shirts in the photo. All of them look like average people. I see no “over-styled hair, subtle tattoos and designer glasses”
Is there really still a ‘register’ in the back of an Apple Store? I haven’t seen one in years.
Yes they are smug cult eager to help out the other smug cult:: the Apple device owner. Both cults know that they have the best electronic devices on the planet. Put that in you pipe and smoke it Xavier Toby!!!
Wait till we we start wearing our black robes and having meetings!
An article based on stupidity and absolutely no facts. Opinionated B.S.!!
What = he prefers the high school drop outs at TJMaxx ?
God forbid he should go to Bergdorf Goodman or Marc Jacobs
Must be a Gap customer – reach for the lowest common denominator….
ya no, i’ve really had it up to here with assholes throwing the ‘cult’ word around so much in association with apple. cult this, cult that. i think some of these people are in need of their own intervention.
Funny, that’s the article I was going to write about Walmart.
Old, ruddy-duddy fanboy here, since first Macintosh. They helped me do my job better and make more money. Also a fan of the Apple Stores and often there, have universally over the years had friendly, helpful and patience service. The young kids are wholesome, polite and considerate…a credit to their generation and they will succeed. If anything, the Apple Stores should be business role model for service and customer satisfaction.