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Quote from an Apple Store employee
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You mean they don't all hang out at Steve's house on the weekend?
No, they attempt to do trendy things on the weekend and talk about what poses theyll use to take pics with an ipad
My brother managed laptop distribution for Gateway, and just interviewed to be the Portables Distro Manager for the Asia region at Apple's Headquarters. He described the interview as "Seven of the brightest minds I've ever been in a room with." He said they asked him questions like "It's 3:15pm. What is the difference in degrees between the small hand and the big hand?" and "You come home to find an elephant in your backyard. What do you do with it?" He said the last guy was a VP with 2 PHD's that handed him a sharpy, and said "Go up to the board and teach me something I don't know."
I joked with him that it will be KILLER to have a family member that knows the skinny on the portables roadmap. He immediately shut me down, saying that even as the distro manager he would not be told anything about the system specifications until the day of release, and even the exact release date is not revealed. Only the quarter of release, and the projects internal codename. Nothing else. Then the week of release, he gets a total alotment to be distributed to Asias region (say 30,000 at launch) and based on internal sales info he decides what units go where.
And he made sure to mention that he wasn't telling me jack sh*t about anything there until its public knowledge. He always was a little punk.
If the friggin' Portables Distro Manager knows nothing about specific release date or system specs, what do you figure the local schmuck at the genius bar knows? Less then nada.
I joked with him that it will be KILLER to have a family member that knows the skinny on the portables roadmap. He immediately shut me down, saying that even as the distro manager he would not be told anything about the system specifications until the day of release, and even the exact release date is not revealed. Only the quarter of release, and the projects internal codename. Nothing else. Then the week of release, he gets a total alotment to be distributed to Asias region (say 30,000 at launch) and based on internal sales info he decides what units go where.
And he made sure to mention that he wasn't telling me jack sh*t about anything there until its public knowledge. He always was a little punk.
If the friggin' Portables Distro Manager knows nothing about specific release date or system specs, what do you figure the local schmuck at the genius bar knows? Less then nada.
I get the impression that most of the Apple Store employees could not care less about what they sell. There are a few that genuinely care about the platform and utilize it. Most think that they will get that record deal or just trying to get through school.
I find that those employees that say those things are the most laid back people working for Apple and generally the people you want to talk to to actually get help from. Others take being an Apple employee a little too serious telling you they don't know nothing and then moving on to something else like they're keeping a secret.
I know when people call in and are asking for information, I tell them the same. Check rumor/Apple fansites to get an idea of what Apple is doing. Of course the expectations are set so no one is getting hurt with false information.
The guy couldn't have been that smart if he told your brother to write on a dry erase board with a sharpy...
The guy couldn't have been that smart if he told your brother to write on a dry erase board with a sharpy...
I wonder if that was the whole test...see if he was smart enough not to write anything with that kind of pen....tricky...those Apple muckity mucks...lol