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So many people in this thread are complaining about their current store always being over-crowded, or the next available Genius Bar appointment being so far in the future (because the store doesn't have capacity to meet the current demand).

I think even without any new products, continuing to open new (and expand existing) stores will still be a benefit to customers in crowded markets. Which seems to be the majority of them, listening to folks post in threads like this here on MR...
It's probably overcrowded during certain days like weekends or something. During weekdays, it's more milder.
Everyone has different experience and perspective. Can't blame them for that.

Those current hardwares may or may not benefit customers. If they already seen those products...well...that's that..they wouldn't come back unless they need accessories, buy products, plug their files to those hardwares to work, or just browsing with those.
 
So many people in this thread are complaining about their current store always being over-crowded, or the next available Genius Bar appointment being so far in the future (because the store doesn't have capacity to meet the current demand).

Then there are those that just complain because it is one of the few pleasures they get out of life. Unloaded many around me personally and professionally whom had that habit.
 
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It has nothing to do with wanting attention. He was referring to the fact that it's okay for minority or fringe groups to celebrate their difference, while if a white or male does so these days, it's slammed by those other groups.

Or for that matter, that goes for virtually any group formerly considered dominant. From housewives to heterosexuals, many people nowadays would take offense if such groups banded together.



Sometimes that's true. Sometimes it's just the easiest way to avoid having to actually work. You know, the thing that males are pretty much predestined to do from birth. No choice in the matter.

This is not fifty years ago. As a father of daughters, I fight to make sure they have more choices. I've also noted that women's worst enemies, are actually other women passing judgement on them.

If you want something to take offense at these days, look no further than companies who do business with China and India. Both China and India are nations where millions of females are not just aborted, but many baby girls are abandoned or killed after birth.

Indian Minister Says 2,000 Girls Are Killed Across the Country Every Day

Good grief. The "other countries are way worse so stop complaining about the discrimination you get here" gambit. No, sorry, I want the country I actually live in to be better, thanks.

Why would straight white men need a special event to celebrate themselves when nearly every "normal" event is a celebration of straight white men? Are you REALLY that beat down as a group to need to rah rah yourselves back up so you can compete with the rest of us? Gosh I didn't know you had it so bad. How can I help?

All of these special interest events are just so people in those groups can find out about people they can relate to and look up to. How does it hurt you in any possible way? Straight white men can turn on any TV channel, read any textbook, etc. and find a ton of men they can relate to. The rest of us have to go out of our way to find them ourselves and when we do, we put on events so other people can see them, too. Why is that a bad thing?
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They do it's called the UN.

or practically any other technology summit. Women are still woefully underrepresented in STEM areas so I don't know why it is so surprising that an effort wouldn't be made to show girls and women some successful women to emulate and get encouragement from.
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No, because they actually don't try before they ask for help. Even I have to ask for help sometimes. In my current highway engineering lab, there is a woman who usually sits directly in front me. Every 2 minutes, literally: "Does my on ramp look okay?" "What do I click?" "Does my preferences look okay?"

During this lab, we are currently running through a book-based tutorial on how to use Microstation and Inroads to create a highway interchange. The book lays out all the preferences and with screenshots of how everything should look. It's like she can't read. I had to move further back so I'm not constantly bother throughout the course of the 3 hour lab.

I'm also in taking an engineering programming class this quarter in visual basic. I've already had 2 women take a picture of my screen to figure out the code and constantly ask for how I figured it out. It's like they can't listen to the instructor or think.

I could go on; Plus, in these labs each woman usually has some sort of orbiter dude who she sits next with that she can constantly ask to get attention. Comical, really.

When I was in college, I experienced the same thing with guys in the class. Copying off my paper and being generally clueless. Some people try classes they have no business being in. It's not a gender thing.
 
Why would straight white men need a special event to celebrate themselves when nearly every "normal" event is a celebration of straight white men? Are you REALLY that beat down as a group to need to rah rah yourselves back up so you can compete with the rest of us? Gosh I didn't know you had it so bad. How can I help?

Well, with a naive, mean, and bitter attitude like that, I sure hope you never have a straight white male husband or straight white male sons to verbally beat up.

Thanks for asking.
 
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Well, with a unfair, mean, and bitter attitude like that, I sure hope you never have a straight white male husband or straight white male sons to verbally beat up.

Thanks for asking.
Actually, I have always been in male-dominated fields and prefer the company of men. Once they stop assuming I don't know what I'm doing because I'm a woman (which I have learned to expect and endure), we get along just fine and have a lot of laughs, mutual respect and excellent information exchanges. And none of my guy friends ever whine about Women-specific events. They are more evolved than that.
 
That is just saying that the computing power of devices continues to increase, which is just a platitude. BTW, Moore's law has started to slow down as smaller fabrication sizes become problematic.

No, it's saying that computers have become more powerful, easier to use and more accessible to the masses, leaving older forms of computing behind or applicable only to niche applications, and people who ridicule the new paradigm are being shortsighted like all the naysayers before them.
 
Good grief. The "other countries are way worse so stop complaining about the discrimination you get here" gambit. No, sorry, I want the country I actually live in to be better, thanks.

Why would straight white men need a special event to celebrate themselves when nearly every "normal" event is a celebration of straight white men? Are you REALLY that beat down as a group to need to rah rah yourselves back up so you can compete with the rest of us? Gosh I didn't know you had it so bad. How can I help?.......

That's the fatal flaw of identity politics -- you treat demographics like groups, and then you look at the most narrow sliver of that demographic and act like it's representative of the rest of it (as if it were a group).

It's too bad reality doesn't quite fit the narrative.
 
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Women are still woefully underrepresented in STEM areas so I don't know why it is so surprising that an effort wouldn't be made to show girls and women some successful women to emulate and get encouragement from.
Is she STEM? Angela Merkel could be the best promotion of STEM if people knew.
 
Is she STEM? Angela Merkel could be the best promotion of STEM if people knew.

She's STEM-adjacent since she works for Apple. I agree that Merkel will be a great STEM leader once she's not busy running one of the most powerful countries ;)
 
That's the fatal flaw of identity politics -- you treat demographics like groups, and then you look at the most narrow sliver of that demographic and act like it's representative of the rest of it (as if it were a group).

It's too bad reality doesn't quite fit the narrative.

You're right, it's not great to broad brush anyone. Most men I know, usually younger than 50, have much better attitudes towards women and their tech capabilities. I was more targeting the kind of man who would complain about women putting together a woman's summit like this one as if it was some slight against men.
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That only reinforces the notion that you better study business and not science or technology.
huh? My own business is actually a combination of tech and marketing. That's where it's at.
 
You're right, it's not great to broad brush anyone. Most men I know, usually younger than 50, have much better attitudes towards women and their tech capabilities. I was more targeting the kind of man who would complain about women putting together a woman's summit like this one as if it was some slight against men.
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huh? My own business is actually a combination of tech and marketing. That's where it's at.

Yet all you've done in this thread is broad brush everyone.

I (a guy) don't belong to any group, nor do I see myself as belonging to a group. I just do things, think, and sometimes talk.
 
This kind of lame comment is as predictable as the sun rising every morning. "Boo hoo, I'm not satisfied being in the privileged white male class of people 99% of the time so I have to whine about everyone else getting a few seconds of attention and trying to raise ourselves up to the same level."

Besides, isn't every summit with all men on the panel the "Most Powerful Men Summit" in their own minds?

Indeed! It's almost as if there is some sort of... oh, what would the word be for it... "inequality" between men and women, and as a result women feel compelled to... how do I put this so it can be understood... "do something about it". Shocking, really.

The only inequality is in your mind. I treat people equally and so do the majority of people. Do yourselves a favor and work hard to get ahead instead of playing the victim and blaming everyone else for your own perceived slights. Nothing like militant "feminism"...
 
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Sounds like your store has a problem there. You should get a "how'd we do?" email after every appointment. Are you filling them out and rating them low? At the store I worked at, managers were required to call back every customer that was unsatisfied.
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The stores used to be a lot less busy, too. A lot less. Seems like reservations are how other busy places handle high volume. Doctors offices, restaurants, etc. You can't just walk into those places (when they're busy) and be seen immediately. How would you have Apple handle it?

You don't get an email after every appointment, only some.

I'd have them staff adequately with qualified people who can handle the volume.
 
15-year prior career with Circuit City and their focus was more "running the store from the office" and on meeting sales numbers. Customer and employee satisfaction (NetPromoter) scores dropped when the second manager was in charge.

As someone who worked at a Circuit City, that's your problem. Circuit City had the worst management.
 
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The thing that people don't seem to understand is in 2012-2013 when Angela was talking to Tim about her role at Apple, merging digital and online were not a priority for Apple. The divisions were run totally separately and really did not cross-pollinate outside of "Buy Online, Pickup In-Store" which didn't really require much communication between store teams and online unless there was an issue with confirming a pickup.

When Angela took over retail, retail had effectively been operating without a leader for 2 years. Jon Browett left a huge mess at Apple Retail, he had cut a lot of store maintenance budgets, employee hours, and morale plummeted through his tenure. Angela can't come in and fix a fleet of 500 stores overnight.

In addition, many of Apple's mall landlords have made it really hard and expensive for Apple to renovate and expand their stores since they know how much traffic and revenue those stores generate for the mall.

Angela may not be perfect, but employees seem to love her and she has started to at least bring the stores into a new shopping experience -- something which her predecessor absolutely did not do.
 
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The only inequality is in your mind. I treat people equally and so do the majority of people. Do yourselves a favor and work hard to get ahead instead of playing the victim and blaming everyone else for your own perceived slights. Nothing like militant "feminism"...
Ha! These women are working hard to get ahead and the best you can do is cry "no fair!" Time for a reality check.
 
I was using Apple probably before you were born - since Jobs 1. I think I've got a handle on what they do and when they fail. The only time they make industry trends is when they creating cutting edge products, not try and sell 3 year old ones.
How long was the Apple 2 on the market?
 
Ha! These women are working hard to get ahead and the best you can do is cry "no fair!" Time for a reality check.
Personally, I have no complaints about her work. What I do know is that Ron Johnson got flamed at JC Penney.
 
Well, with a naive, mean, and bitter attitude like that, I sure hope you never have a straight white male husband or straight white male sons to verbally beat up.

Thanks for asking.
Men complaining about women-specific events being problematic = totally fine

Anyone pointing out that the men's complaining is what's problematic = hey stop being so mean to us!!

Seriously!?
 
Men complaining about women-specific events being problematic = totally fine
Anyone pointing out that the men's complaining is what's problematic = hey stop being so mean to us!!
Seriously!?

I think offense was originally taken by Laurim where none was intended.

My own perception was that the original poster was NOT complaining about women-specific events. What s/he said was:

I can only imagine if they had a most powerful men summit...

To me, that poster was simply commenting that men would get slammed nowadays if they named something the same way.

Thus I responded to this:

Besides, isn't every summit with all men on the panel the "Most Powerful Men Summit" in their own minds?

Turn that around. Imagine if he had instead written:

"Isn't every summit with all women on the panel the "Most Powerful Women Summit" in their own minds?"

Sounds just as silly, if you're honest.
 
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