I’m curious where you are. All I have been seeing in the tech press is that there are no lines etc. I don’t have an Apple Store in my hometown. So I have no first-hand experience. I was at Best Buy today, and they were crowded at all. But that’s not the Apple Store. Mary
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 28, 2018, at 4:27 PM, Cristobal Muñoz <cristobalm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well… Went to the Apple store with my wife to get her iPhone’s battery > replaced and while there, I grabbed the XR. My God. Apple stores are > soooooooooooooo loud and there were so. Many. People. Ended up spending > almost three hours there. > Anyway, While she was getting her battery looked at, the Apple guy was trying > to sell me on an iPad and Apple Music. Yeah, I’m good. This is my iPad and > for a few commercials, I’m cool with nice and free Pandora. Anyway, I ended > up also getting one of those lightening to 3.5 jack adaptors for some > headphones I always use. I tried talking the guy into hooking me up, but > nope. So what if you just dropped $1000 on their stuff. Apple’s going to > squeeze every last drop out of you. Capitalism baby. > Anyway, I got home. Attempted the restore from iCloud and during this > process, the darn phone bricked. I got stuck on the passcode screen with no > way to get out of it. An hour later on the phone with Apple support and two > tech supervisors their suggestion was to simply take it back for an exchange. > The earliest date they could give me for a “Genius Bar” appointment was this > Thursday. Whatever. > I showed up this morning at 11:00 when they opened and dear God. There were > already easily 100 people outside of the place waiting for it to open its > doors. There were already Apple folks running around with iPads signing folks > in and crap. I mean seriously? What the hhell? Everyone go home. > I went into full helpless blindy mode and was squeezed in right away. After > running whatever tests they had to do on my device, they determined that I > had a lemon. Something to do with a booty display. I’m sure that’s what they > tell everyone though. Who cares. The end result was that I got the exchange > and this time, I had them set it up for me and do the iCloud restore there. > An hour later, I was out of the place. > Man, this thing is big. My SE feels so puny. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
