Best Buy considers selling Macs

didnt Apple try this before? and it failed? Best Buy people are not gonna care. they are the typical "apple doesnt have any software why do you want it"

or it will be the ever popular "our mac guy is off today and there is no one here to help"

How many times must Apple try and sell at Worst Buy before they realize that it will never work. This does nothing but make Apple look worse in front of potential customers.

The Best Buy in my home town, Mason City, IA, sells Mac Minis...I am not in Iowa too often, but I was home to visit a week ago and they had them then.

Attempt to buy one next time, and let us know your experience.

In addition to the above comment about staff, this is a clash of cultures. Both wanting to dictate to the other on what the other should be doing. Two bullies on the playground generally don’t work.

Plus want the heck is APPLE thinking? They would be best severed by local specialty retailers or Apple Stores then BBY.

[i]Plus want the heck is APPLE thinking? They would be best severed by local specialty retailers or Apple Stores then BBY.[/i]

Yes, they would. However the razor-thin margins on Apple products, poor delivery of high-demand systems and market poaching by the Apple stores are quickly making these stores a thing of the past. Why would I shop there when I can get delivery as fast or faster and pay the same price if I get it from Apple?

I used to work for an authorized Apple dealer. Note the past tense.

As a current employee of BBY and member of their geek squad I can attest to the trouble apple is going to have selling at the stores mostly because the sales personnel will not be trained at all. Hell even our techs are so damn ignorant that the mention of macs and they begin to talk crap that they know nothing about. I have a new macbook and i can safely say it is the best laptop i have ever owned, as well as 2 windows desktops, 1 laptop and an intel imac and honestly there have been so many times where a customer will come in trying to find a pc and from their needs I direct them to the apple store at the mall. Unless apple gets their act together and enforces strict training guidelines for the best buy employees on macs and osx it will fail.

Apple has never ben somthing good microsft has it all the only thing keeping apple standing is the ipod and if it didnt have that it would have nothing

who would want a apple they are slow and unrelible right