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Desktop application used in Apple Stores

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OK, I recently went to the opening of the new Apple store in Glasgow, and noticed that on all of the desktops, there was what looked like an application with icons which were links:

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Is this an application that can be downloaded, or something else? I think this'd be pretty useful.

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I'd imagine that's an internal Apple CRM application.
 
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I have never been able to find it. I think its an apple developed app for the stores only.
 
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EDIT-XTREEM said:
I have never been able to find it. I think its an apple developed app for the stores only.
Click to expand...

Would it be pirating when you would get it?

wondering about that,

it can't be that hard to get it, and don't see the bad thing about it, but well I doubt if this is pirating or not
 
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tuaw.com have a couple of links, one for a legal (and cheap) Concierge-a-like, and another way to (most likely illegaly) get a copy of the Apple concierge.

Docktop (the app linked in the previous article) just does the 'floating buttons/links' thing, so isn't limited just to Apple store functionality.
 
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cazabam, your Docktop link is broken.

If it's an internal Apple application that you can't buy - which it sounds as if it is - then "obtaining" it would certainly be illegal.
 
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I assume that using the Docktop for apps and stuff like that isn't illegal?
 
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chrisdb89 said:
I assume that using the Docktop for apps and stuff like that isn't illegal?
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I doubt it, DockTop is just a product by the looks of it. But getting hold of Apple's internal CRM software almost certainly is.
 
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Ooooo i went to that new store on sunday and yesterday. Didnt go on saturday as i was stuck up near loch lomond. The Glasgow store is now probably the closest one to me even though i live in the North West of Northern ireland :D
 

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