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Apple Store Wouldn't Sell to Father without Apple Pay

posted by martyb on Wednesday February 06 2019, @04:29PM   
from the Only-the-true-believers-may-worship-here dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

An Apple store found a new low recently when a Sydney, Australia father was not able to purchase an item because the Apple staffer would only process his payment using Apple pay. In a move the buyer recounts as being 'stupidity', a staff member repeatedly tried to get the customer onto Apple pay instead of just processing the payment for the item. Things went downhill after the staffer asked the customer if he had an iPhone. The customer got the impression that he would need to use the Apple Pay app to buy what he wanted, when what he really needed was to pay and leave. After trying, and failing, to find a staff member who would just process his payment, the customer left the store, walked across the street, and purchased the same item from a JB Hi Fi store.

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Original Submission

• Re:Across the street. Re:Across the street. (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @05:19PM (6 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @05:19PM (#797246)

  Apple makes the best tablet computers. Have you looked at Android tablets lately? They're all terrible at best.

  Of course, that statement is not a subjective, qualitative opinion from a fanboy.

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• Re:Across the street. Re:Across the street. (Score: 2) by Apparition on Wednesday February 06 2019, @06:01PM (5 children)

  by Apparition (6835) on Wednesday February 06 2019, @06:01PM (#797267) Journal

  Of course it is subjective. But fanboy? Hardly. iPads are the only Apple products that I have ever used. I am currently typing this on an Android smartphone. I am just calling it as I see it.

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  • Re:Across the street. Re:Across the street. (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @08:50PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 06 2019, @08:50PM (#797392)

    I am just calling it as I see it.

    "... Have you looked at Android tablets lately? They're all terrible at best."

    Yet you are stating it as if it is fact.

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    • Re:Across the street. Re:Across the street. (Score: 2) by Mykl on Wednesday February 06 2019, @11:32PM (3 children)

      by Mykl (1112) on Wednesday February 06 2019, @11:32PM (#797493)

      Sorry AC, you're deliberately misconstruing Apparition's comments in order to start a platform war. Apparition just confirmed in his post that he was making a subjective statement, so you just look foolish replying without reading properly.

      Here - try me instead.

      I, Mykl, make the following statement of fact: Android tablets are all terrible and iPads are the only logical choice for a tablet purchase.

      There you go - enjoy.

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      • Re:Across the street. Re:Across the street. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @12:38AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @12:38AM (#797521)

        different ac. Ipads are very nice. Some android tablets are OK. Wouldn't blame anyone for getting a used ipad, tho.

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        • Re:Across the street. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @07:03AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @07:03AM (#797646)

          Different AC? FFS
          how am I supposed to tell you apart? Which is the apple fanboi amd which is the mainline android realist?

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      • Re:Across the street. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @03:05AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @03:05AM (#797581)

        Sorry AC, you're deliberately misconstruing Apparition's comments in order to start a platform war.

        You seem to be the one who is doing most of the misconstruing:
        1. you misconstrue that I am trying to "start a platform war""
        2. you misconstrue that the latter, weak, qualifying statement by "Apparition" excuses his/her earlier unqualified expression of an opinion as fact.
        3. you "construe" that "Apparition" is a male.

        I, Mykl, make the following statement of fact: Android tablets are all terrible and iPads are the only logical choice for a tablet purchase.

        That's a real funny joke, but just stating a subjective opinion as a fact does not make it so.

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