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.
moochers
05/25, 02:43pm reply
jesus, people, if you want to test-drive the computer, fine... but it's not a goddamned library! What is it with some people?
climacs
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good!
05/25, 02:46pm reply
myspace is stupid anyway...
ooshnoo
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Hope they do it right
05/25, 03:32pm reply
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.
Guest
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Re: hope they do it right
05/25, 04:11pm reply
Wouldn't it have been easier to do it at the router/gateway, then having to change all machines?
testudo
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re: hope they do it right
05/25, 05:22pm reply
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.
darkelf
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what about proxies?
05/25, 06:39pm reply
there are dozens of myspace proxies on the net. i wonder how apple will handle that?
kingyubba
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Proxies
05/25, 09:07pm reply
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****.
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facebook
05/26, 07:12am reply
As long as they don't ban facebook and Gmail I don't care!
willed
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What’s new
05/26, 12:47pm reply
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!
Clive
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Joined: Jan 2001
Yaaayy! Justice!
05/27, 12:24am reply
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.
hldan
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