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B.R.
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Went to the Apple store today in San Francisco. I went there thinking that it was a store where potential Apple owners go to see and tinker with Apple products. Wrong! It turns out that it is nothing more than a Cyber cafe - without the cafe. Every machine is connected to the internet. This means that everybody and their grandmother stops there to download music, upload pictures, surf the web and check email. Nearly everybody I observed was doing something personal on the machines. I walked up to a 12" powerbook and closed it to see just how compact it was. Well, when I did that it powered off and, for whatever reason, the machine next to me powered off. When that happened the guy on that machine got totally irritated with me because he was in the process of checking his email. Oh, stupid me! I went to check out another powerbook and looked at it as another customer was looking at it. Sometimes, when you're in a store, other customers may be looking at the same product. The guy turns around and with the rudest tone he can muster says, "Excuse me!" It was then that I realized he was entering personal information into a web site. This guy was acting like I had just walked into his living room and looked over his shoulder. I went to that store because I had heard great things about it. I also thought I might get to examine some of the machines a little more closely. That was my first and last trip to an Apple store. As a potential Apple customer, that was a really crappy experience. Thanks for nothing!