pple started blocking access to MySpace from its retail stores a couple years ago, when customers accessing the site started taking away time from the other 2,248 customers per day (on average) that walk through the door. Now, the new popular social networking site Facebook has earned the dubious honor of becoming such a time-suck that Apple now blocks it from its display machines.For some people, there's one reason fewer to stop by an Apple Store. I wonder if this is for employees too during break. Now, why don't we limit the amount of time people can spend taking pictures of themselves in Photo Booth while I'm waiting to try out a new MacBook!
Friday, February 6, 2009
Apple: Facebook no More!
Infinite Loop: Apple blocks access to time-suck Facebook from retail stores - Ars Technica
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There's a video around somewhere of someone who took it to the extreme: He went to an Apple store during non-busy hours, launched iChat on every Mac and then minimized it, then went to his house and had a 200 computer video call to every computer in the store- there are pictures of this guy's face on every Mac in the whole store. And he could see everyone inside the store, too, since newer Macs have webcams built in. That only lasted until they closed iChat on all the computers, but it was pretty awesome.
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