NEWS: Mac Stores Cock-Block MySpace; Teenage Mallrats Grieve

Dude, shut it- this part is one of the best posts ever on SG:

Seriously, this is what I imagine Marx or Arendt would sound like if they'd had Myspace.

It'd make them look bad to be shooing people off of computers. If you remove what keeps those kids on the computers, they'll go up, use it, and then wander off. If they just put a time limit, they'd have to have someone give the "Get off my lawn!" speech and make Apple look like a store of crotchety fun-haters.

It's the catch 22 of wanting to have a cool, open atmosphere where customers can browse at their leisure without feeling constantly pressured...but having to deal with the majoirty of schmoes who will just think "oooohhh....free internet" and fuck it up for everyone.

In a similar situation...I used to work at Barnes & Noble. Most of their stores have sections with large comfortable chairs & end tables where you can comfortably sit & browse through a few books.

The intended purpose is to have customers spend a little more time in the store...maybe look through a few books & buy things.

What it has turned into is a place for kids to read every fucking comic in the store...for hours on end...people to read magazines for free...homeless people to sleep....and for people to look through 37 travel destination books on Paris...and leave 36 of them in a clumsy pile on the end table.

Basically...people are disgusting slobs who will take a mile for every inch offered.

So, to be clear... I CAN still go into an Apple store and check on the SG babes, right?

jk

So Apples and Macs are two different types of computers? I never knew that. I thought they were just the same thing...

Nah, you don't even need all that. You can do this at any retail establishment if customers get pesky and stupid. Don't laugh; yes, you too can be a snobbish asshole if someone doesn't GTFO your only computer with Internet access because you need it to look up a product for another customer.

I've done it before, and I will do it again.

Because ALL people who work in retail don't get paid enough to sell AND babysit customers.

And whomever is responsible for the off-kicking in that one case, is clearly a molester of children and should be lynched.

Not to generalize. Just saying...

You know, the whole internet-acronym thing (brb, gtg, lol, et-fucking-cetera) usually steams my ham to a degree that ignites many an anti-nerd rant...

But this GTFO just makes me giggle. Everytime. (Could be the prescription meds though.)

I like.

What I want to know is what ever happened to freedom of speech!?!!!?!1

HA Awsomeness

And believe it or not you can no longer take pictures in Hot Topic because of that.

Take that Mallrats.

No, it's because like every other pseudo-trendy clothing retailer out there they don't want the competition stealing their ideas.

this happened to me in a mall in san jose. I was at the G5 station on the space and some douchbag security goon comes up and says " we dont go on that site here." And im like " what? why? is it pornographic or somethin??" and he says "No its just policy." So I sez " if you want me to buy this G5 ,im staying on this site." . . " oh alright. . . " he says back. yeah thanks apple store.

What a douche, doing his fucking job like that.
If it were me, I'd have taken your credit card before I let you keep surfing 'the space'

Yeah, so how are you enjoying your G5?

Man, we had sex 'n' drugs 'n' rock & roll etc... when I was a youngster to keep us entertained. Hanging around a Mac shop????

The once or twice I've hung outside an Apple Store to leach off their free wireless it was because I wanted to close a service call I'd just finished elsewhere in the mall.

I know. Kids are fucking lame these days.

I went into an Apple store late last year to look at an iMac. I went around the store and counted that 11 of the 16 computers on display were occupied by kids checking their MySpace accounts. Fucking 11.
I'm glad Apple has taken care of this.