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Originally Posted by murraypaul
With Apple stores, they don't care. They are both manufacturer and retailer, so they make money whether you buy in store or elsewhere. (And as prices are essentially fixed, there is no reason not to buy in a store anyway.)
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I must respectfully disagree. You buy an iPod on the Apple site and you can get a free engraving on the back. As far as Im aware they offer nothing of the sort at the store and would point you to the internet if you want it. So depends on what you want. Personally I prefer my iPod engraved. Why not right? Someone steals it, you have to prove its yours, tell them whats engraved underneath that case and on the back of the iPod or, just show your name and ID if you have your name on it. Never came up but you never know.
Now around here, Im not sure if many are aware of my struggle or not. Basically Ive only been to a Barnes & Noble. I never got around to a Target or WalMart, any of those places. Ive been there but surely not looking for ebook readers. I went to another BN recently and found that they have theirs on the third floor, a whole row of nothing but ebook readers. I sat down and started playing with one, figured Id read a short story. It was around thirteen pages and I was waiting for someone to meet me so I began to read. A lady came up and offered help, I thanked her and continued reading. In this BN they actually had chairs. The one around where I live is just a giant kiosk where you stand there and someone usually stands in back of it. I say usually because rarely do you see them there, its always empty. Who cares anyway, they just had a Nook. They had a million flyers for the Nook Color but it wasnt out yet. Well here it seemed empty but someone immediately came over and helped. She wasnt very knowledgeable but she wanted to help and immediately got another employee when I started asking questions. I admire that. This lady was very good but BN had one serious flaw here. They had a bunch of readers in a row, Kobo, Sony, I dont remember the exact names. I asked if one could read comic strips right off the bat. She pointed me towards a cheap mans iPad, not really a Nook Color but much more square. Again, I dont know the names. Well woman told me all that it could do and how it ran on the Android operating system, well I was just about sold. There was just two problems, including that flaw. The thing attached to the internet via WiFi but it wasnt connected. How do you expect to sell something when you cant show me how the thing works? Second problem which has nothing to do with them, I have a bunch of Kindle purchases and Im not about to give up those books. Those two reasons and now that I realize it was an LCD screen, are the reasons why I didnt buy anything that day.
This format war is stupid. I dont see why Kindle cant have apps on everything. Kindle can have an app on the iPad, why not? Nook, why not? If I have a Nook I cant read my Kindle books? That makes no darn sense. Its a book not a game system. I understand I cant play the same game on 360 as I can on Wii, but this is different.
And not having WiFi up, honestly, that made no sense. Ive seen this happen at the Apple store before and even at cell phone retailers as they try to sell smartphones. They really need to work on fixing that. She said she could get a working WiFi copy from the second floor but by then I had lost interest.