Hi Esther,Yeah, I love messing around with iChat in the stores ;) However, all the times I tried initiating a videochat or tried accepting one that was not in-store, it failed. Haven't had much luck with anything other than text.
cheers, jane On Nov 26, 2007 2:45 PM, Esther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jane, Cara, Darcy, and Others, > > I meant to follow up on this thread earlier when some folks were saying > how > they wished they had an Apple Store close to them. While making an > earlier > post to list about how to make concierge appointments with the genius bar > at > your local Apple Store on the web, I came across a "fan" site about Apple > Stores, their history, etc. One of the pages was about how to iChatAV > with > an Apple Store. This gave the iChat screen names for computers on the > show room of retail Apple Stores. The author tried about 60 of these > stores > randomly, and got typically only 3 or 4 of these with machines running > iChatAV > at these random times. In general, somebody had to be near one of these > computers who knew how to answer an iChat session and be willing to > respond, and that generally meant using the video portion of iChat to get > somebody's attention. > > Still, how cool would it be if the next time a list member went to visit > an > Apple Store you could all find one of these active machines and start > an iChat session with your questions about new features/products to > check out! I can even imagine Darcy and Holly recording one of these > sessions for Screenless Switchers (smile). > > Here's the link to the page about "iChatAV with Apple Store": > > http://www.ifoapplestore.com/stores/ichatav.html > > The Apple Store computers all have screen names like ars047.05 > where the first part is the Apple Retail Store number and the last > two digits are the computer number. > > And the post about how to make a genius bar appointment on the > web, assuming that you can get to a nearby Apple Store, is at > this URL in the mailing list archives: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg19144.html > > Cheers, > > Esther > > >> >> On Nov 25, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Jane Lee wrote: > >> >> > >> >>> Hey Cara. > >> >>> I had a problem with my MacBook and tried to make concierge > >> >>> appointments at > >> >>> the half dozen Apple Stores in and around LA - Century City, Grove, > >> >>> Beverly > >> >>> Center, Santa Monica, Glendale, Northridge, Pasadena, Sherman Oaks > - > >> >>> and > >> >>> none of them had open spots for the Genius Bar. A week after > >> >>> looking at the > >> >>> concierge sites every few hours, I managed to snag one at Century > >> >>> City two > >> >>> days in advance at the only time that was available which was > highly > >> >>> inconvenient, and ended up with an empty brained infuriating Genius > >> >>> who > >> >>> didn't solve the problem because I found a workaround during that > >> >>> week it > >> >>> took to get an appointment but would have liked to get the problem > >> >>> looked at > >> >>> anyway. > >
