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Does anyone treat going to Apple Store as if he was a kid going to Radio Shack?
Posted on 4/3/26 at 9:45 am
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Posted on 4/3/26 at 9:47 am to prplhze2000
What? No
Posted on 4/3/26 at 9:47 am to prplhze2000
Radio Shack had useful stuff. Apple is already outdated when its released.
Posted on 4/3/26 at 9:48 am to prplhze2000
Cant say that i have but not a bad comparison
Posted on 4/3/26 at 9:48 am to prplhze2000
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Apple Store
I thought only women and gays went there?
Posted on 4/3/26 at 9:50 am to prplhze2000
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Does anyone treat going to Apple Store as if he was a kid going to Radio Shack?
No, going to the Apple Store is much like a trip to the DMV if you're trying to use AppleCare.
Posted on 4/3/26 at 9:54 am to Horsemeat
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Apple is already outdated when its released.
Yep. That's why Winblows 11 is desperately and obviously trying to copy the look and feel of a Mac.
Posted on 4/3/26 at 9:54 am to prplhze2000
Personally, I've never been inside one, but from walking past an Apple Store, I think it would be more akin to going to a gay bar.
Posted on 4/3/26 at 9:55 am to prplhze2000
I dont go to that place unless I absolutely need to and its been years since I absolutely had to go.
Posted on 4/3/26 at 9:59 am to prplhze2000
Our house is pretty much all Apple, but...not really.
There's not a lot of novelty to it anymore - we've all seen stuff resembling the current Macs, iPads, phones and watches for years now. I remember it being fun when maybe the watch came out, and I actually remember the same for the Microsoft stores (assuming they still exist) when the surface was taking off.
Radio shack as a kid was fun because there were like CB radios and stuff in there, all sorts of things you'd not encounter most places.
Tech (consumer tech) has plateaued - at least in form factors, so it is what it is. The foldable iPhone this fall may get some people back into stores on that account.
There's not a lot of novelty to it anymore - we've all seen stuff resembling the current Macs, iPads, phones and watches for years now. I remember it being fun when maybe the watch came out, and I actually remember the same for the Microsoft stores (assuming they still exist) when the surface was taking off.
Radio shack as a kid was fun because there were like CB radios and stuff in there, all sorts of things you'd not encounter most places.
Tech (consumer tech) has plateaued - at least in form factors, so it is what it is. The foldable iPhone this fall may get some people back into stores on that account.
Posted on 4/3/26 at 10:01 am to prplhze2000
You just get worse and worse as a poster as the months go by.
Posted on 4/3/26 at 10:03 am to Pettifogger
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Microsoft stores (assuming they still exist)
Our local one was killed during COVID which sucked because they held weekly Fortnite tournaments
Posted on 4/3/26 at 10:09 am to prplhze2000
quote:$$$ to $$$$$
Apple Store
quote:$ to $$
Radio Shack
Posted on 4/3/26 at 10:13 am to Smeg
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I think it would be more akin to going to a gay bar.
Oh Yea?
What’s your favorite one?
Posted on 4/3/26 at 10:25 am to prplhze2000
quote:not remotely
Does anyone treat going to Apple Store as if he was a kid going to Radio Shack?
locked in ecosystem, romper room for kids playing in ipads in the corner and lots of snotty arse apple nerds walking around making you feel cheap for not buying a $4000 vr headset.
Jim at Radio Shack (Twin City Mall IFKYK) let us run wild; we rifled through bins of all kinds of doodads you could probably make a nuclear bomb with the shite they had at radio shack
and he would let us sit in front of the TRS-80 for HOURS writing BASIC programs. 
this typically followed running out of quarters at the nickelodeon arcade and after we snuck into Tonga Island to push all the piano key buttons on the cigarette dispenser trying to get a pack to come out.
Posted on 4/3/26 at 10:26 am to prplhze2000
I was in my 20s when those things opened. Always hated going in there with the ex-wife.
Posted on 4/3/26 at 10:32 am to prplhze2000
The Apple Store doesn’t come close to what Radio Shack was.
Posted on 4/3/26 at 10:34 am to prplhze2000
You serious Clark? A store that spoon feeds pre-packaged fashion tech vs a store that I could buy individual resistors, capacitors, and diodes to solder my own gadgets together? Radio shack was for actual nerds.
Posted on 4/3/26 at 10:36 am to prplhze2000
Literally never been to an Apple store and I've been an iphone/ipod user for 18 years and an air pod user for 5.
Posted on 4/3/26 at 10:46 am to prplhze2000
I walked into an Apple Store prob 10-12 years ago and this pencil necked soy burger walked up to me and asked if I had an appointment like I was at the f’ing doctors office. I haven’t been back since.
This post was edited on 4/3/26 at 10:47 am
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