Comments on: iCan’t iStand the iApple Store

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:10:24 +0000

Hi Jenny from the Blog,

I love this article and all your posts. My sister showed me your blog a few months ago and I have really enjoyed reading it. Congratulations on your new freelancing endeavour. I would love to follow in your footsteps! I just started a blog and think there are some similarities in our humor. If you have a second- check it out! I hope you enjoy.

http://sensitivesaladventures.blogspot.com/

-SS

PS I am also a PC with an iPod

By: Anita

Anita — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:34:52 +0000

I am a hybrid, PC + Mac are commonly in my life. I have to say Apple store in Shanghai sometime rather with huge scale or a stand in big chain of electronic store. Rarely you see people hang in around and admire them.

However, downloading app isn’t Mac’s specialty, I came across for PC, it also full of apps to download.

If I want to have a good visual impression, I will go to Mac, if I want to easily produce my documents, I will go to PC. There is hard to balance from one thing to another.

By: Fran

Fran — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:23:58 +0000

Thanks for a great read! Insightful AND clever.

I like my Mac, altho not as much as I used to, and I own an iPod that I barely use. I HATE the Apple store in downtown Portland, OR.. Energy, buzz, crowds–total turnoff for a disabled 50-something and especially my 69-year-old husband. I would have had a far better chance of weaning him from his PC had I bought my equipment at the quiet, sane, helpful Mac Force store in SE PDX. Had I but known.

By: Paul Banas

Paul Banas — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:01:57 +0000

For those of us who have loved our Macs for literally decades, this story is comforting. I’ve had to deal with PCs in the past, and while not cultish, the experience is more lemming-like. Everyone has one, so I have to have one too despite what agony they are to use. Macs do make the whole computer experience personal, and perhaps too personal (and expensive) for some, or most. On the other hand, there are those of us who are willing to pay the emotional and financial cost for a machine that makes us better writers, artists, creators.

I would never trade my 4 Macs, 2 iPhones and 2 iPods!

By: Pat Montgomery

Pat Montgomery — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:56:02 +0000

Doncha just hate it when the machines come to life? Very funny post, Jenny.

By: Ev

Ev — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:23:27 +0000

Reading your various blogs was more annoying to me than the busy atmosphere of my Apple Store. In my One to One program I have actually met a few young “geniuses” who knew their stuff, were good teachers and also polite. I had one or two who did not live up to the “genius” level –they were older people, helas, like I am. I draw my hat to the young people of today working for Apple and helping those of us who after many years decided to switch from a PC desk top to a MAC Book for travel.

By: zeemaid

zeemaid — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:30:39 +0000

That was pretty funny. I love your witty take on things.

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By: Susan @ 2KoP

Susan @ 2KoP — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:45:21 +0000

Well, you won’t convert me — I’m Mac through and through. But you did make me laugh. I love a good snark.

For annoying animated icons, it’s hard to do worse than Bob the PC Paperclip — remember him. And as far as having to make an appointment, at least Apple has stores instead pimply teenaged boys fixing things in the back of their parents’ garage.

Still, you made me laugh. Good writing.

By: rachy

rachy — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:15:37 +0000

iJenny, iMust say that iEnjoyed reading your iReview of the iApple iStore. But iI must say that iI don’t have and iPod or iPhone or iAnything.

Still, iI must also say that because the iApple iComputer has a stable iOperating System (compared to pcWindows or pcVista) and doesn’t pcReboot when it pcFeels like it (and it doesn’t give me the dreaded pcBlue Screen of Death when it pcCrashes), iI might consider buying an iApple, except for the very high iPrice!

By: Sabine

Sabine — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:13:30 +0000

Oh boy, that was funny. Apple stores are crazy, all those customers just playing with the toys. I went there once on a Saturday night to buy my monitor. It was hell – I know – shouldn’t have done that. I have no desire to go back. That’s what the Internet is for.

By: Rose

Rose — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:43:51 +0000

When your iPod crashes go to U-Tube. There are videos posted with instructions on how to fix it yourself. Seriously, I brought my iPod back to life quite simply in a matter of minutes by watching a video on u-tube!

Rose