And can't use Apple Pay to buy them...
You can through their app. Also, I doubt not accepting AP in store is much of a factor considering that I barely see people use it anywhere else.
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You can through their app. Also, I doubt not accepting AP in store is much of a factor considering that I barely see people use it anywhere else.
Wow MacRumors could you try to spin this story any more positive?
a 2017 iphone to look fwd to?
Just report the news please.
I can't believe people are attacking Target. 20% is 20% down. Nothing changed and that's the problem.
Most of us won't be buying the iphone 7 so expect the for worst.
a 2017 iphone to look fwd to?
Just report the news please.
I can't believe people are attacking Target. 20% is 20% down. Nothing changed and that's the problem.
Most of us won't be buying the iphone 7 so expect the for worst.
Well, hard to keep saying that it's just us - "macrumors trolls" are complaining
about Apple not bringing anything new and selling old stuff for way too much money...
Seems like all Tim and Co. have been doing recently are interviews -
"we are very excited about the future", "amazing stuff coming up", blah, blah...
Are they talking about Apple car, model 2021? Because we know for sure it's not about iPhone 7....
about Apple not bringing anything new and selling old stuff for way too much money...
Seems like all Tim and Co. have been doing recently are interviews -
"we are very excited about the future", "amazing stuff coming up", blah, blah...
Are they talking about Apple car, model 2021? Because we know for sure it's not about iPhone 7....
At my Target, there's Apple signage, but the actual products are buried away, hard to find, and the staff doesn't even know WHAT they carry, much less anything about them. Nor does Apple pay commissions to sales staff the way some companies do. And the display models are always stolen, leaving a broken stand.
That said, products go in cycles, and most of Apple's products are nearing a refresh all at once. I'd expect sales to be down even if sold competently!
That said, products go in cycles, and most of Apple's products are nearing a refresh all at once. I'd expect sales to be down even if sold competently!
Does anyone even shop at Target any longer? Every since they decided to become verbally political the one near me is almost vacant most of the time. I wonder if this may be contributing to the down sales. Few customers at the store= fewer items sold.
I bought an iPad Air at Target.
But Target sounds like it has bigger problems that Apple not making enough goodies.
I still absolutely fail to see the appeal of a goofy curved screen. It doesn't make any sense for televisions and it makes just as much sense for telephones. Please Apple, don't make gimmicks like Samsung.
But Target sounds like it has bigger problems that Apple not making enough goodies.
I still absolutely fail to see the appeal of a goofy curved screen. It doesn't make any sense for televisions and it makes just as much sense for telephones. Please Apple, don't make gimmicks like Samsung.
So would you vote Tim cook out? After all he relies on iPhone sales for performance.
I was mainly joking. But I could see where people who have a propensity to buy Apple products might shun a store that has made it clear they really don't want to support Apple Pay.
Maybe it's the way Target presents Apple's products- and technology in general- at its stores? Can't tell you how many times I've been in a Target where the iPads/iPhones are cracked, not even turning on, or straight up missing from the displays.
Then they started putting them behind the glass displays, and I noticed just a couple of months ago that my local target still had an iPad 3rd gen and iPhone 5c on display, along with an iPod touch 4th gen in a different aisle. They can't sell Apple products because they don't know how.
Then they started putting them behind the glass displays, and I noticed just a couple of months ago that my local target still had an iPad 3rd gen and iPhone 5c on display, along with an iPod touch 4th gen in a different aisle. They can't sell Apple products because they don't know how.
meh - for a couple of us who use apple pay. it's not a big deal.
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surely you can't be serious?
lipstick on a pig man. the apple products are stale.
Since nobody can take the time to check the linked source, here is is:
Target (TGT) reported disappointing Q2 earnings on Wednesday, and management placed part of the blame squarely on Apple (AAPL).
Comparable store sales at Target overall fell by 1.1%, but Target executives noted that electronic sales decreased by double digits and “accounted for 70 basis points [0.7%] of overall comp decline.”
Even more notably, Target specifically pointed out that Apple product sales were down by “more than 20%” year-over-year and were to blame for a third of the overall plunge of electronic sales at Target.
Comparable store sales at Target overall fell by 1.1%, but Target executives noted that electronic sales decreased by double digits and “accounted for 70 basis points [0.7%] of overall comp decline.”
Even more notably, Target specifically pointed out that Apple product sales were down by “more than 20%” year-over-year and were to blame for a third of the overall plunge of electronic sales at Target.
Hope you're attempting to be funny and ironic. Comparing the CEO of the maker of the iPhone and the CEO of a store that sells hundreds of thousands of products other than the iPhone on their dependence of the sales of iPhone is a little ludicrous, wouldn't you say?
Tim, look at the sales history of the iPod. That's how much time you have left.
As a long time Apple fan, consumer, etc I feel like many of my fellow Apple supporters are nearing a "climate denier" like state of illusion. We believe that Apple still has great products and we wouldn't be happy with any other computer, mobile device, ecosystem, etc but we fight the nagging impression that Apple has become a plodding organization. It's like a quarterback who can't spin it as well as he could in his youth or an athlete who has become a step slower.
We are torn between defending Apple by denying that the pace of change, refresh is slow and the absence of game changing design or features.
Cook, Ive et al should realize that no one buys that there are innovative, life changing products in the pipeline of the near future. But deniers cling to those words as a sign of hope.
Hey Apple, do something and amaze us SOON.
We are torn between defending Apple by denying that the pace of change, refresh is slow and the absence of game changing design or features.
Cook, Ive et al should realize that no one buys that there are innovative, life changing products in the pipeline of the near future. But deniers cling to those words as a sign of hope.
Hey Apple, do something and amaze us SOON.
... and it will get worse... All their Products are working fine and OS X is incredible as is iOS. However, all their phones's hardware is vastly outdated compared to Samsung. Could one run iOS on Samsung, tomorrow Apple would sell ZERO phones. Tim Cook seems to be completely blindsided and vastly blind toward what works and what doesn't. Same goes for the top execs. like Cue and Federigi. Happy as small children during presentation of stuff that isn't new and no body wants.
It is very very clear that Steve is NOT with the company anymore. Cook might be good working under a visionary but his own vision reaches not past the plate from which he eats !
It is very very clear that Steve is NOT with the company anymore. Cook might be good working under a visionary but his own vision reaches not past the plate from which he eats !
Sweet Jeebus. I was gonna go on a mini rant about reading comprehension but a better mini rant would be about the way the post is written. 2 paragraphs and a big ass picture related to the topic and the headline. 4 paragraphs rehashing Apple's last quarter and future rumors. If we could have gotten that distribution of words reversed, with a little more detail about what Target actually reported, maybe there would have been a bit more clarity. Still, it's pretty obvious some of us have no clue what we read.
Compare 9to5 post here.
Compare 9to5 post here.
Maybe so, but for the bulk of who do use Apple Pay it is a big deal. Apple Pay is about security and privacy to me. The Targets and Walmarts of the world have made it abundantly clear that they value data mining more than my privacy. I will act accordingly.
OP has a valid point. There is a reason why Apple Stores are the most valuable retail space in the world. The environment promotes their products. I won't buy Apple products from third party retailers generally, because the people selling them know nothing about the products (or much else, for that matter) and the overall experience is crappy.
Well, an iPhone SE 64GB was $649 at Target, $499 at Apple. Guess where I purchased my phone from?
What the heck Target?
What the heck Target?
They have to.. The 2017 iPhone brings what the 2016 Samsung already has. The 2017 Samsung will have what the 2021 iPhone will have, if the company still care to produce their own dinosaur phone instead porting iOS to Samsung... Latter obviously does phones A LOT better than Apple only their OS suck ! And so does android
PS - Perhaps in 2030 Apple will present the NEW and the INNOVATIVE - Waterproof phone and tout it as the world first !
