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The stores are more sterile and the employees and service is more "clinical" and less "hands on." I miss the original stores' refurbished/discount tables/bin t
by jtr_47 8y ago
The stores are more sterile and the employees and service is more "clinical" and less "hands on."
I miss the original stores' refurbished/discount tables/bin they used to have. You could find great deals on those tables..
Oh.. one other thing that annoys the hell out of me about the stores an service. I bought a new iphone8, I asked if they could transfer the iphone5 data+ apps to my new phone. They said no, do it yourself.. I was pissed. A damn tech company, that sells a portable cpu for $700+ dollars and they won't perform a data transfer?
peace
- jeromegv 8y agoBeside entering your iCloud user/password, is there anything else you need to do to transfer data to a new iPhone?
- mrunkel 8y agono. And they probably won't do it for that very reason, as they don't want to know your iCloud password. Without it what service can they provide?
- xvector 8y agoYou can’t be serious? You think it would be reasonable from a security perspective if Apple was capable of transferring your data?
- jdsully 8y agoThey used to do that a long time ago. You would sit there with them as they transferred it off your old machine.
- xvector 8y ago> They used to do that a long time ago. Pretty happy they don't do that anymore, then. It sounds terrible for security.
- jdsully 8y agoAll they did was hook your old mac up to your new one with a cable and run the standard software. You sat with them and watched. There's no reason they couldn't do something similar/more modern with an iPhone and not have a security risk.
- thirdsun 8y agoWhat you describe sounds like a huge waste of everybody's time. Furthermore data migration on mobile devices mostly happens via iCloud these days - there's really no need to do that in store. It's part of the onboarding process whenever you boot up a new iOS device.
- jdsully 8y agoA waste if you know what your doing. For my Grandpa who’d never figure it out on his own it was a real benefit.
- xvector 8y ago> There's no reason they couldn't do something similar/more modern with an iPhone and not have a security risk. Of course there's a security risk. The security model of both the Macs and the iPhones have significantly improved. The hardware security models make this a difficult engineering task - and a dangerous one.
- jdsully 8y agoThe modern day equivalent would be walking you through backing up to iCloud and restoring from iCloud. It’s not a security risk unless iCloud is one already.
- PKop 8y ago> transfer the iphone5 data+ apps to my new phone Just ... sign in to iCloud? To "do this for you", you'd be giving them your credentials no? Seems like an unfair complaint.
- scarface74 8y agoWhy would you want your data on their computers instead of either doing through iCloud or iTunes?
- cardiffspaceman 8y agoWhen I bought an iPhone 7 earlier this year, they walked me through the transfer of the data from my iPhone 5. It was more like me doing it with a trained assistant at hand. They were confused at first because iPhone 5's don't have all the options for transfer that newer phones have.