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Apple bans MySpace in retail stores

updated 02:30 pm EDT, Fri May 25, 2007

No MySpace in Apple stores

Apple has confirmed a ban on MySpace in its retail stores, according to crave. The online social networking medium allows members to communicate with one another, post photographs, and more. Apple store employees reported some visitors lingering for "hours" as they took photos of themselves with the display MacBooks and uploaded them to their MySpace accounts, effectively denying other shoppers the ability to test drive the small notebooks. "It is especially troublesome at the flagships and high-volume stores, and for a while there was no official word on how to deal with it," said one Apple Store employee, referring to loitering MySpace users. An official Apple representative did say, however, that MySpace is currently the only site blocked.

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climacs
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05/25, 02:43pm | report spam | close Reply |
moochers

jesus, people, if you want to test-drive the computer, fine... but it's not a goddamned library! What is it with some people?

ooshnoo
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05/25, 02:46pm | report spam | close Reply |
good!

myspace is stupid anyway...

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05/25, 03:32pm | report spam | close Reply |
Hope they do it right

While I was still working in a store, is when we started doing this. Normally we had to go around and kick people off the system when they would goto myspace. I created an /etc/hosts file that just redirected login.myspace.com to 127.0.0.1 and used ARD to push it to every machine.

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05/25, 04:11pm | report spam | close Reply |
Re: hope they do it right

Wouldn't it have been easier to do it at the router/gateway, then having to change all machines?

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05/25, 05:22pm | report spam | close Reply |
re: hope they do it right

yes, it would be easier to implement a block at the network gateway, or local DNS server. especially since anyone could hunt down and remove the /etc/hosts file. er, wait, myspace? nevermind, mywaste users aren't that smart, i suppose.

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05/25, 06:39pm | report spam | close Reply |
what about proxies?

there are dozens of myspace proxies on the net. i wonder how apple will handle that?

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05/25, 09:07pm | report spam | close Reply |
Proxies

I think the average MySpace user is oblivious to proxies, I don't really think it will make an impact.

Besides, they want to reduce a problem, not be complete n****.

willed
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05/26, 07:12am | report spam | close Reply |
facebook

As long as they don't ban facebook and Gmail I don't care!

Clive
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05/26, 12:47pm | report spam | close Reply |
What�s new

If you�re giving people free wifi and computer use then they will misuse it. I�ve seen Windows users sitting in the Regent Street shop using the WiFi - Apple should kick them out!

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05/27, 12:24am | report spam | close Reply |
Yaaayy! Justice!

I always wondered why the Apple stores put up with those Myspace leechers. I visit the San Francisco store and I never can get on one computer to check an email due to those school kids hogging the computers. I wanted to buy a Macbook Pro and thankfully I knew what I was getting so I just picked one up but I wanted to play with it before I made the purchase. No such luck, another teenager hogging all the Macbooks and the majority was on Myspace. The poster who mentioned earlier about Facebook, that's the same thing as Myspace, the need to ban that one too. Potential buyers shouldn't have to deprived of trying out a new computer because of the leeching Myspace kids. The site should have been blocked months ago.

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05/27, 06:56am | report spam | close Reply |
re : Yaaayy! Justice!

"Potential buyers shouldn't have to deprived of trying out a new computer because of the leeching Myspace kids."

"I visit the San Francisco store and I never can get on one computer to check an email[...]"

i failed to see the difference. both are either inappropriate or not. potential buyers shouldn't have to wait for you to check your email any more than have to wait for some kid checking his myspace messages.

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05/27, 06:26pm | report spam | close Reply |
Not quite the same

Checking e-mail is a 90-second activity. It also allows legitimate customers to get a feel for a computer. These computers are available for people to try them out and do what they think they'd do if they had it. Checking e-mail is probably the single most common activity, and very many people still check their mail using web interface (rather than Mail app).

Unlike these, Myspace (or Facebook) users are not likely customers. They come and spend hours on Myspace/Facebook doing nothing productive for Apple. They don't generate a sale, they don't generate a prospective lead, they are, as someone sid, leeches wasting other people's resources.

Banning Myspace (and its derivatives) was the right thing to do. The stores will be less crowded and more attractive to those who will ultimately buy or influence a purchase (which these Myspace teens definitely would not).

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05/29, 12:21am | report spam | close Reply |
talk about waste

Why the heck isn't Apple doing something a bit more creative? Come on, Tiger has lots of built in parental controls for accounts that could solve this issue for more than just myspace! I'm totally shocked they haven't created a kiosk account that runs people through a tour, gives them a chance to test some basic internet & app stuff, then boots them back off the machine. Want to know more about certain apps or features then get a store clerk to help you.

On a positive note, I'm glad to know about this ban cause now if I see these punks trying to get on myspace when I'm at an Apple Store I'm gonna give them a nice little scene. :) Nice thing about being older is you care less about image than a bunch of insecure teenagers! Haha, I can hardly wait to catch one! :)

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05/29, 10:00am | report spam | close Reply |
good for Apple

for putting an end to the inconsiderate leeches that hog up so much time in the retail stores. I've experienced not being to get on a machine to test drive it myself, though I never knew it was related to MySpace and other such sites. Doesn't surprise me though. These social networking sites are nothing but a huge waste of time in my opinion anyway.

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Apple bans MySpace in retail stores

updated 02:30 pm EDT, Fri May 25, 2007

No MySpace in Apple stores

moochers

good!

Hope they do it right

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re: hope they do it right

what about proxies?

Proxies

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Yaaayy! Justice!

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Not quite the same

talk about waste

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