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Apple clearly does not wish to make money off Genius Bar appointments; if they did, they'd charge a fee. They're providing it as a service to their customers to
by archgoon 13y ago
Apple clearly does not wish to make money off Genius Bar appointments; if they did, they'd charge a fee. They're providing it as a service to their customers to improve their experience. This is akin to taking food from a soup kitchen and reselling it at the market rate. Nothing 'brilliant' about it.
- pessimizer 13y agoIf you can figure out how to take food from a soup kitchen, sell it at the market rate, and make a profit, you're brilliant.
- jlgreco 13y agoStand in front of the soup kitchen with a bat, declare the kitchen to be "yours", and demand people pay you tribute for admission. That doesn't make you a genius, just an asshole.
- chrischen 13y agoThat would make you arrested.
- jlgreco 13y agoIn an ideal world, yes. Homeless people are frequently preyed upon though, particularly in less developed parts of the world. At a much different scale, consider warlords that sell intercepted donated food to the people it was meant to go to for free. They aren't geniuses, just massive assholes.
- humblepie 13y agoThis is the kind of thinking that ruins good things for everybody.
- mynameishere 13y agoThere you go. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/isle_take_that_welfare_scam_VBsTspIxia2GA9o2oS505L http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/isle_take_that_welfare_sc... No, it's not a soup kitchen. The point's the same. It's just people acting as parasites. Nothing brilliant about it.
- jack-r-abbit 13y agoI would not put them in the same bucket. I would put the Genius Bar thing into the same bucket as those Task Rabbit people getting paid to stand in line so someone else can show up last minute for the latest iGadget. I seem to recall people having mostly favorable thoughts about that idea. Taking food from the homeless is just jackassery.