3 ms·

Arguing quick examples and metaphors has never been useful to anyone except the arguer's ego. The salesdude actually tried to address Marco's underlying questio

by Jare 14y ago

Arguing quick examples and metaphors has never been useful to anyone except the arguer's ego. The salesdude actually tried to address Marco's underlying question (in what ways can you expand this thing?), even though it was clear Marco was there just for trolling. Surface love or hate nonwithstanding, this is an embarrassing post from start to finish.

27182818284 14y ago
It was important for the overall motif he repeated throughout the piece that the salespeople seemed to be forcing the issue too much and weren't personally invested. (How could they be? The store has been open for less than a month.)
- Jare 14y ago
  Marco was asking a Microsoft store employee if he applied to Apple store first. In what world...? It's hard to compete with that level of personal investment.
  - cooldeal 14y ago
    I presume he did that so that if he got an affirmative answer he could've declared that Microsoft was hiring Apple Store rejects.
- lostlogin 14y ago
  On the subject of trolling, isn't the very store he went into some kind of meta-troll. Built to be encountered before the Apple store is reached, copying layout and staffing concepts, trying to divert people from buying iPads, coyly calling the competition (iPad) a tablet, rather than name it. I think that there is a reasonable augment to be made that Microsoft is trolling Apple. The smart cover keyboard though, that's a definite win however I look at it.
  - corporalagumbo 14y ago
    Please, they're not trolling anyone, they're just embarassing themselves. Even if they can sell a bundle of Surfaces it's not worth it.
  - deong 14y ago
    > coyly calling the competition (iPad) a tablet, rather than name it Kind of like putting a picture of a Nexus 7 on the screen and calling it "a competitor's tablet"? This isn't trolling, it's the way advertising has worked throughout the history of people trying to get other people to buy stuff.

by Jare 14y ago

27182818284 14y ago

It was important for the overall motif he repeated throughout the piece that the salespeople seemed to be forcing the issue too much and weren't personally invested. (How could they be? The store has been open for less than a month.)

Jare 14y ago
Marco was asking a Microsoft store employee if he applied to Apple store first. In what world...? It's hard to compete with that level of personal investment.
- cooldeal 14y ago
  I presume he did that so that if he got an affirmative answer he could've declared that Microsoft was hiring Apple Store rejects.
lostlogin 14y ago
On the subject of trolling, isn't the very store he went into some kind of meta-troll. Built to be encountered before the Apple store is reached, copying layout and staffing concepts, trying to divert people from buying iPads, coyly calling the competition (iPad) a tablet, rather than name it. I think that there is a reasonable augment to be made that Microsoft is trolling Apple. The smart cover keyboard though, that's a definite win however I look at it.
- corporalagumbo 14y ago
  Please, they're not trolling anyone, they're just embarassing themselves. Even if they can sell a bundle of Surfaces it's not worth it.
- deong 14y ago
  > coyly calling the competition (iPad) a tablet, rather than name it Kind of like putting a picture of a Nexus 7 on the screen and calling it "a competitor's tablet"? This isn't trolling, it's the way advertising has worked throughout the history of people trying to get other people to buy stuff.