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Time Near for IPhone X...

kblanco

kblanco

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So the time must be near for the IPhone X as in the center in which I work we have an Apple store. This evening on my way in, I see a line going down the block from the store and around the corner which tells me Apple's about to release a new device. So all the little ISheep have gathered... I'm tempted to go over and check them out, to remind them that many of the features they're just now getting have been on Android devices for the last several years. But then again I was taught by my parents to not be mean to the animals...
 
I should!!! I work at a hotel, so because we're open 24hrs we usually get Apple folks using our restrooms and buying stuff from our gift shop while they wait their hours until the Apple Store opens. Usually I just tease them by telling them that Android (and even Windows Phone) is better than the IPhone...
 
I was in an Apple store the other day (ewww lol), my 13 yr old nephew wanted to upgrade from a 6 to a 7. It would have been ~$400. w/trade in, I asked the sales guy to convince him he shouldn't do it (and he was fabulous at that, thanked him profusely). I did ask him what the deal w/the X is and he was less than enthusiastic, said it wasn't worth it for the changes made. He asked me what phone I had so I showed him and as I was flipping my screens around (widgets and icon packs galore), he just sighed and said he missed Android and customization. At least he was honest.
 
They'll probably have the People's Armed Police, the Public Security, and several SWAT units outside the Apple Store in Beijing. Then I read something about unauthorized scalping of Apple products could get offenders up to ten years hard labour in a Laogai.

Samsung launches their flagship for the year, the Note8, and almost nobody cares about that.
 
Clementine_3 said:
I was in an Apple store the other day (ewww lol), my 13 yr old nephew wanted to upgrade from a 6 to a 7. It would have been ~$400. w/trade in, I asked the sales guy to convince him he shouldn't do it (and he was fabulous at that, thanked him profusely). I did ask him what the deal w/the X is and he was less than enthusiastic, said it wasn't worth it for the changes made. He asked me what phone I had so I showed him and as I was flipping my screens around (widgets and icon packs galore), he just sighed and said he missed Android and customization. At least he was honest.
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Wow, that's both really great and sad... I mean, I've heard differing things about Apple Store employees how they do/don't get paid a commission but also do have to make their numbers. So for him to talk your kid out of a $400.00 upgrade because he really isn't missing anything is really something...

But it's also sad because yeah, Apple users are just missing so much. I mean there's just so much customization in Android where as Apple is you just get what you get. The same icons and layout (more or less) ten years or so? That's just insane if you ask me... It's just that actually getting such an honest response from an Apple employee, you'd expect the canned talking points about how good Apple is instead...
 
kblanco said:
Wow, that's both really great and sad... I mean, I've heard differing things about Apple Store employees how they do/don't get paid a commission but also do have to make their numbers. So for him to talk your kid out of a $400.00 upgrade because he really isn't missing anything is really something...

But it's also sad because yeah, Apple users are just missing so much. I mean there's just so much customization in Android where as Apple is you just get what you get. The same icons and layout (more or less) ten years or so? That's just insane if you ask me... It's just that actually getting such an honest response from an Apple employee, you'd expect the canned talking points about how good Apple is instead...
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It is surprisingly honest. Maybe the guy was on his last day, like the Twitter employee who deleted a certain prominent account :thinking:

But you've got to realise that the Apple buying mentality isn't about function, it's about style, form and labels.
People who buy Apple, generally think they are buying a premium quality product, because of the high ticket price. It goes with their lifestyle.
 
Clementine_3 said:
I wondered the same thing. Even if he is I'd bet he could have another but not bring it to work. I didn't ask :)
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I think you should be able to have whichever kind of phone you want, even when working at the Apple store. I mean that'd be like as a condition of employment, you'd have to buy a Chevy to work at a GM plant or a buy a Toyota to work at a Toyota plant? I mean obviously that doesn't happen. But then again this is Apple we're talking about...
 
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