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Microsoft Attempting to Lure Away Apple Retail Store Staff?
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From what others are saying in this thread, MS is supposedly offering them "double" what they are making at Apple.
This would be rather unheard of and I doubt it's even close to true.
The managers of most retail operations get a base salary and then with bonuses can make quite a bit more. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the median salary of an Apple store manager (the head cheese) was around $75,000 or so and then they can earn upwards of another $50,000 if they hit their numbers.
So, MS is going to offer them base salary of $150,000 and a $100,000 bonus? Highly unlikely.
MS is probably going to offer a larger base salary and smaller bonus, since there's almost no way that they are going to hit any big targets in the first year or two of operation.
You are correct. However, QuickTime, safari, and iTunes are not exclusive to Macs. So how do mac owners run programs that are exclusive to PCs? I can only assume by running windows. Same for mac software, one would need to be running an apple OS.
But unlike OSX, Windows can be loaded on macs without having to be hacked.
Please help me understand if macs OSes can run pc exclusive without windows?
Feature sets
Lets have a look at the stuff that counts, shall we?
iPod Touch / Zune HD
GPS sort of (wifi) / no (apparently)
Radio no / yes
Audible Books yes / no
subscriptions no/ yes
Email yes / no
instant messaging yes / no
Calendar yes / no
maps yes / no
facebook/twitter yes / no
Apps 75000 / 9 or so
games 21000 / 7 or so
Screen 3.5 LCD / 3.3 OLED
Lets have a look at the stuff that counts, shall we?
iPod Touch / Zune HD
GPS sort of (wifi) / no (apparently)
Radio no / yes
Audible Books yes / no
subscriptions no/ yes
Email yes / no
instant messaging yes / no
Calendar yes / no
maps yes / no
facebook/twitter yes / no
Apps 75000 / 9 or so
games 21000 / 7 or so
Screen 3.5 LCD / 3.3 OLED
my own probably worthless prediction
Fewer than 10 Microsoft stores will open before they pull the plug.
Microsoft does not have a single marketing-savvy bone in it's corporate body. They got their marketshare not by marketing, but by limiting buyers' options with their exclusive deals with manufacturers...
Fewer than 10 Microsoft stores will open before they pull the plug.
Microsoft does not have a single marketing-savvy bone in it's corporate body. They got their marketshare not by marketing, but by limiting buyers' options with their exclusive deals with manufacturers...
There have been too many mistakes on apples part to even list to say they "did to smart phones what they did to MP3 players" does that mean that they bought an already existing IP? The iPhone until it steps up corporate support is still going to be a media phone. BB's beat iPhone sales alone hand over fist and they own the business sector.
Edit: On second thought, if you think the iPhone software for business users is flawless, then there is no point in discussing it with you.
Well, microsoft is probably trying too hard. They really don't need ex-apple employees to have a successful run at having stores. It is getting pretty childish at this point. They are doing things out of spite. Hire other techs and managers in the community looking for jobs. NOT people that already have jobs.
If you're a competitor looking to implement a similar system (without having to do all of the legwork yourself) only knowing that it's Windows CE doesn't exactly give you much of a headstart.
I thought the iPhone was about Apple getting consumers to adopt smartphones, something consumers weren't doing in droves prior.
iPhones are about as perfect of a business solution as BlackBerrys are as perfect of a multimedia consumer solution.
Internet Radio offers an extremely large variety of AM/FM and international stations, of which there are several apps for.
Dude, why are you being so hostile? Go take a walk and calm down, this is the internet. The fact is a new Mac Mini bought directly from Apple as of September 22, 2009 at 9:43:55 PM EDT starts at $599. There are many people who don't want to pay much for computers, or simply can't afford. That's where the other OEM's and Microsoft have their advantage, reaching to the people who don't want/can't afford expensive computers.
And about my signature, that is simply a joke. Since most people list their computers in their sig, I wanted to joke about it buy writing that. Before that my computers were listed. If you really want to know what computers I have, i'll tell you.
White MacBook (May 2007) 2.16 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo 2GB RAM 120 GB HD
Aluminum iMac 24" (August 2007) 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4GB RAM 500 GB HD
iMac G5 ALS 20" (~purchased April 2005) 2 GHz PowerPC G5 2GB RAM 500 GB HD
iMac G4 17" (purchased 2002) 1 GHz PowerPC G4 512 MB RAM 75 GB HD
Happy?
Jai Ho
Sir, forgive me, I forgot that I wrote that iPhone software for business users was flawless. OH... WAIT... I DIDN'T. ANYWHERE. ANY TIME. Ever. Can't even think of one, can you?
this pretty much sums up reality, and it's something that the Apple faithful need to realize.
I worked in retail all through college, and there's just no loyalty. Anywhere. Anyone who thinks that the majority of Apple employees do it for the love of Steve are fooling themselves. Do most of them like Apple stuff? Probably. Would they skip out on better pay and benefits given the opportunity? No way.
Besides, what's keeping them from continuing to use Apple stuff at home anyway? Who cares what they sell at work?
I've used the old one and I've seen ton of videos demoing it on youtube so it doesn't matter if you have to try it out in person when they got 10000093450938459872 vidoes of it demoing for you.
I'd take Slacker Radio on my iPhone over any local radio channel (even HD) any day.
Why don't we ever hear the term "the Microsoft faithful" when it's obvious they exist (with many of them right here on MacRumors no less...)?
Apple Retail staff consistently claim they are told nothing until the public is. they don't know release dates, details,what's on the drawing boards etc. they say it when the rumors start, they say it when the announcements of an announcement go out, they say it when folks come in pissed cause they just bought a new whatever 3 weeks ago and this morning a new version was announced.
crazy thought, maybe they aren't told anything. which would make an NDA unneeded. and that lack of having to bother could be part of why they aren't told since it's hard to track someone down to sign one when leaving if the person just decides not to show up one day