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So...building hype is more important than ensuring their customers have uninterrupted access to the store? Shows where their priorities lie.
Supposedly so. Can't they just release the ****ing product already?!
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Hype sells, always has always will! If you dont like it then dont buy apple
But i bet you still do!
You don't understand marketing, go cry somewhere else.
Why should I give a crap about their marketing?
As a consumer, I care more about how I'm treated than how Apple is marketing their products. If I'm working at, say, a design firm and I'm supposed to order a bunch of Mac Pros today, I'd be pretty pissed if I can't do my job today because Apple took down the entire store to build up some hype for a new product completely unrelated to what I want to buy. Frankly, I'd rather believe they just have a horribly designed online store than believe Apple would be this callous towards their own customers.
The thing is the design firms will be clambering over apple as usual over the next few days as will most apple fans, Your augument has merit but in the real world if they loose a customer or two because of the site being down they will gain many more! Chill!
I think you're forgetting what's important. You're not about to go look for an alternative for your company just because you have to wait a few hours for their store to go back online.
Almost every big site goes down for extended periods of maintenance at some time or another. If your company is relying on purchasing within a specific couple of hours, then I think your company has more to worry about that Apple's marketing.
Touche.
Though, I still hold that going down for maintenance due to necessity is acceptable, going down for maintenance when completely unnecessary just to build hype is less so.
Only disappointment to me is that the 2.2ghz doesn't seem to come standard with 1680x1050. If it came with that, it'd be an easy choice between low-end and high-end MBPs.... still I think the better GPU makes the decision for me for the high-end.
