soooo I can't pick one up this week.
I hadn't even considered the possibility of going into a Store and buying one...we'll have to see if my order moves faster than that.
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Apple Preparing Retail Employees for June In-Store Apple Watch Launch
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I hadn't even considered the possibility of going into a Store and buying one...we'll have to see if my order moves faster than that.
Better yet, let them all take one home to play with. I'm sure things are better now, but at first the employees I interacted with, were just as confused at the UI dead end paths, as I was at the time (before getting one).
(...) "this is what you were born to do" (...)
What a PR BS ?
How much does she despise her own employees ?
What a PR BS ?
How much does she despise her own employees ?
That's pretty much what I take away from her as well. She just doesn't seem to say the right things. It's as if the things she says are forced because she's trying to fit in with the smooth Apple way of talking. Like in those training videos she did where you could tell that wasn't her regular speech pattern.
Says the multi-millionaire to her $8 per hour employees. LOL.
After seeing the video about a week after launch, my opinion of her changed for the better.
As for the "born to do..." comment, my opinion of her changed for the better seeing her in context, and not snippets. The snippets of her are horrible, but in context, she appeals to my senses. I can understand how others don't see it that way, but something about her, I like.
HA! As I was writing this, my watch shipped! From June 29 to the 16th to the 1st (to be delivered by the 2nd!)!
Ha. I got one of the first Apple Watch try-on appointments at my local, on pre-order day. The staff member was quite open about the fact she'd never even touched the Watch before and had no idea what to tell me. Was quite shocked by that, considering it really didn't seem to the standard Apple would hope for in their stores.
Confused me more so as to why the staff just weren't prepared enough. They should have had weeks of training already, but I'm not entirely sure how Apple would get an unreleased product into the hands of staff members. But the point is, they should. It's always distressing when Apple Store employees say they "don't know anything" about such and such a product or they "haven't even seen one." I get the secrets that surround Apple products, but retail employees need adequate training! Why do they think it's acceptable to keep their own employees in the dark, right up until the last minute? Or is it because there are thousands of Apple Store employees and they can't be trusted to keep quiet about unannounced products? Heck, they could even just make sure the employees have time with the products in the gap between announcement and release, it's not like Apple have to tell them everything pre-announcement.
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Born? Seriously?
Might make some realize they were born to run. From Apple.
Might make some realize they were born to run. From Apple.
I think Angela Ahrendts really screwed up the Apple Watch launch. Buying an Apple product at an Apple store is what customers have done and still expect to do. I think part of the reason why demand has dropped off so much after the initial rush, is because everyone realized they can't buy it at the store. The purchasing experience at the store I believe does drive a lot of demand.
So do the long lines, believe it or not. If the average person is walking down the mall and sees a massive line at the Apple Store everyday for 2 months, you know they have something everyone desires and wants and that makes you desire and want it too.
So do the long lines, believe it or not. If the average person is walking down the mall and sees a massive line at the Apple Store everyday for 2 months, you know they have something everyone desires and wants and that makes you desire and want it too.
"this is what you were born to do"
You were born to work for a huge company selling watches?
You were born to work for a huge company selling watches?
"This is our moment to shine, this will be a launch unlike any we've ever had before... this is what you were born to do, this is why you are at Apple"
It is disgusting. Like her Watch's time has been turned back half a century.
It is disgusting. Like her Watch's time has been turned back half a century.
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You know what we all could do? EVERYONE - follow me here.....
EVERYONE let's all order a 2nd Apple watch (or first if you don't have one). That will spike the orders up again, and Apple AGAIN won't be able to put any into the stores because they'll AGAIN have a backlog of millions of phones they can't deliver!
Anyone have a credit card I can use?
Get on your knees, peasants...
I was just about to say the same thing. It's kinda degrading. I really don't like her.
Meh. I just don't think she says the right things and, as I said earlier to someone else, she seems to forcefully add Apple-esque words into her speech to fit in because really, she doesn't have a clue what she's doing.
I agree with her in the way that long lines outside of Apple Stores does look ugly and doesn't always attract a good crowd, violent attenders and scalpers to name a few. So cutting that outdated event down does seem the way to go, although straight up making it so a brand new product is not available in store for months after launch is pretty silly.
Brace yourself for the inevitable Angela Ahrendts you-were-born-to meme generators.
Yep, same here. They had only seen the Watch for the first time a few days earlier.
Basically, people who hung out on forums beforehand, knew much more about the different Watch features and how to operate it, than the Apple employees did.
Yea. Her entire statement was over the top IMO. This entire "upscale" dogma from Tim is starting to feel like bringing in Donald Trump to open Apple Casino. I'm not buying into it. Apple is not Maxfield, and never will be.
Gadgets, gadgets, gadgets. How about some reality based Mac Upgrades? Nah, to "mainstream" for todays Apple.
I took my dad to the Apple store to get a case for his new iPhone 6. First one he's ever owned. I played with an Apple Watch while I was there. I don't get them. They don't seem to serve a purpose for me. To each their own, but hardly anyone was messing with them, but they sure were messing with their other products.
My prediction was that you will see an initial burst of gotta have it interest and that round two is going to be dismal.