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[PsYcHoKiLLa]

CJEric, on 13 August 2012 - 22:07, said:

I think nowadays it's mostly glass and aluminum, isn't it?

Still not worth paying twice the price for comparable PC hardware, especially when you can buy the OS yourself for not a lot.

[.Neo]

Chicane-UK, on 13 August 2012 - 21:22, said:

Confusing given that they continue to harvest astronomical profits.. maybe some stores haven't been performing well? The UK economy is struggling a bit and maybe they're finding they're just not generating enough sales?

Since the Apple Store in Amsterdam opened I've been puzzled by the vast majority of employees present. It's hard to imagine the store actually making a profit. I've always seen the Apple Store as a huge advertisement pillar, not as something that directly makes Apple money.

[Growled]

I guess times really are hard all over, even for Apple.

[FloatingFatMan]

Growled, on 14 August 2012 - 00:56, said:

I guess times really are hard all over, even for Apple.

God forbid they should have to spend some of their billions in petty cash in keeping hard working front line employee's on. It's not as if these guys play a big role in promoting Apple to the user base, after all...

If they need to save money, cut execs wages.

[CW-88]

Maybe they have finally realised that the staff at the apple stores are really ****!! Especially in Belfast, they are absolutely useless, ignore customers, fixing their hair in the ipads and talking amongst themselves. Stupid wee ********.
This was a few years ago though.

If it was laying off proper jobs within Apple it would maybe be time to show some concern but for this segment........big deal lol

[The King of GnG]

Cannon fodder, Apple-style....

[.Neo]

.Neo, on 13 August 2012 - 22:25, said:

Since the Apple Store in Amsterdam opened I've been puzzled by the vast majority of employees present. It's hard to imagine the store actually making a profit. I've always seen the Apple Store as a huge advertisement pillar, not as something that directly makes Apple money.

*Vast amount of employees I meant.

[ILikeTobacco]

.Neo, on 13 August 2012 - 22:25, said:

Since the Apple Store in Amsterdam opened I've been puzzled by the vast majority of employees present. It's hard to imagine the store actually making a profit. I've always seen the Apple Store as a huge advertisement pillar, not as something that directly makes Apple money.

That's what I thought. Even stores like Bestbuy are doing this. They know that online retail is where the money is at once your name is big enough. Apple's stores are nothing but advertising and ****ing wars with Microsoft. There biggest selling products don't need their own brick and mortar store to sell when they are now sold a nearly all mobile phone companies as well as department stores. These stores should only be staffing the minimum required. Just because you have billions of dollars stashed away doesn't mean you should be wasting it. You don't get that kind of money wasting it on random things just because they are small in comparison. That is how you lose that amount of money. Overtime, the small things add up.

[The Laughing Man]

.Neo, on 13 August 2012 - 22:10, said:

What a bunch of douchebags, pardon my French.

Happened to me before, same week I found out I was having a baby. Talk about an emotional rollercoaster.

[threetonesun]

I've always thought the Apple stores were overstaffed by about 300%. Last time I got an iPhone, 3 people came over to do the transaction.

Not to mention, the products basically sell themselves. There's very little upselling there these days, even on the computers, and they don't have boxed software any more.

[evo_spook]

wierd that google laying off 20% of Motorola staff doesnt even get a back page troll bate thread?

[+techbeck]

evo_spook, on 14 August 2012 - 20:38, said:

wierd that google laying off 20% of Motorola staff doesnt even get a back page troll bate thread?

If you want to start one, then go right a head. Everyone knows that Motorola has not been doing so well and that there are always layoffs with mergers. But it is different with Apple since they keep on making record breaking profits year after year regardless of how the economy has been doing.

[Growled]

FloatingFatMan, on 14 August 2012 - 06:47, said:

God forbid they should have to spend some of their billions in petty cash in keeping hard working front line employee's on. It's not as if these guys play a big role in promoting Apple to the user base, after all... .

I guess they figure that the rich should get richer and the poor should get poorer. Status quo and all.

[Raa]

techbeck, on 13 August 2012 - 20:58, said:

I am sure Apple will be releasing a statement explaining things.

"They were working wrong"

[BoredBozirini]

FloatingFatMan, on 14 August 2012 - 06:47, said:

God forbid they should have to spend some of their billions in petty cash in keeping hard working front line employee's on. It's not as if these guys play a big role in promoting Apple to the user base, after all...

If they need to save money, cut execs wages.

That is socialism.