Comments on: Need Staff? There’s an Apple Store for That

By: off topic chatter

off topic chatter — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:29:22 +0000

I see this all happened a year ago. What exactly did Microsoft achieve from all of this? I actually adore Microsoft, and avoid Apple products (it’s like buying a designer pair of jeans to look “cool”).

By: iPhone repairs adelaide

iPhone repairs adelaide — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:55:47 +0000

Microsoft will poach the best of Apple employers because they can. However Apple will retrain more people and brainwash them further, I find apple products rather poor.

By: Hire Staff

Hire Staff — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:41:25 +0000

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By: skellyrocker

skellyrocker — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:20:50 +0000

Lol, you sound like a glutton for punishment!

By: "Dave"

"Dave" — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:04:58 +0000

These will not be the first Microsoft stores, by the way. MSFT opened their first retail store in San Francisco at the Sony Metreon in 1999. It lasted 2 years. (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/24/BUGSVHDITS1.DTL)

By: What to read on the GigaOM network

What to read on the GigaOM network — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:55:21 +0000

[...] 2009 | 8:55 AM PT | 0 comments MLB’s At Bat app downloaded more than 400,000 times (NewTeeVee) Need staff? There’s an Apple Store for that (TheAppleBlog) Confirmed: Nvidia working on Chrome OS Tegra devices (jkOnTheRun) Mozilla releases [...]

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:42:09 +0000

Microsoft hasn’t seen a market it doesn’t want to dominate. I actually bought Windows 1, and carefully resealed the package so I could return it. I signed up for MSN as my ISP. That didn’t last long. I bought a Microsoft wireless router. Now hardly anyone remembers they existed. They tried to sell watches; I resisted that one. They gave me Vista Ultimate and Windows 7 Ultimate for free–pardon me while I yawn. Now they are going to try their hand at out-appling the Apple Store. Given their track record of entering markets outside their core incompetency, we should all go to the Microsoft store quickly, before they close. Then when we tell people there used to be Microsoft stores, we’ll have some credibility.

Now, where are the Microsoft Potato Chips? Aisle 7?

By: Mark Crump

Mark Crump — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:13:27 +0000

Having dealt with Apple retail a lot.. I can’t actually say that’s a group of people I’d want to hire away.

By: Steven R

Steven R — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:46:40 +0000

I’m not sure the source is all that reliable….

By: Galley

Galley — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:17:30 +0000

I visited a Microsoft store yesterday. It was called “Best Buy”.

By: Howie Isaacks

Howie Isaacks — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:19:20 +0000

You hit this right on the nail! One of the many reasons why the Apple stores have been so successful is because Apple’s products really do just work, and customers are able to see that easily. When I worked at the Apple store at Willow Bend, one of the demos that I did was to launch every app on a low end machine so that the customer could see that even the slowest Mac could launch EVERY app on its hard drive at the same time and not crash. Try that on a Windows PC.

I think that the only people that Microsoft will manage to poach are those who haven’t really drank the Cool Aid. If that’s the way it works out, let Microsoft have them. Apple doesn’t need people who will jump ship over to Microsoft. In the end, people have to take the jobs that will be best for them. If working for Apple isn’t good for you, then leave.

By: scikid

scikid — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:43:29 +0000

I agree! Apple rules!!!!! But Microsoft…..

By: skellyrocker

skellyrocker — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:51:04 +0000

Jobsy will be laughing all the way to the bank (again!) Once all the newly poached Apple staff start sending the MS customer’s down the block to get an Apple:

‘Gee sir, I dunno – with Apple that just kinad works, ya know?’

By: loputreyu

loputreyu — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:49:08 +0000

Спасибо. В этом блоге комментаторы хоть нормальные.. А то пишут обычно в комментарии ерунду всякую.

By: Tom Reestman

Tom Reestman — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:46:05 +0000

Best headline I’ve read in a while. :)

By: Neal

Neal — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:37:59 +0000

I’m an Apple fanboy but maybe it’s not just the stores and staff that MS is copying. Maybe they’ll run their own line of MS-branded hardware too so they can also ensure that “things just work”. OSX is the superior OS of course, and that’s what we pay for apart from the seamless experience but if MS can pull off selling cheaper machines with that seamlessness, maybe it could work.