Why? It makes it easier to find ipads you want in your area? Apple shouldve built this site themselves.
Totally agree. Why stop the information which the users are looking for and at the same time not providing the useful one-place-seeing-all info on their own website. Bad PR.
Data on the Apple Store site is not reliable anyway. Yesterday every store was showing that the new Hue light models were in stock, yet local stores I called did not have inventory, did not know when they would have inventory, and had no idea what the products were. Apple's retail delivery is leaving a lot to be desired at the moment. If the site remains unreliable and store personnel remain uninformed (and totally indifferent), I'll be sourcing my Apple products and Hue lights through other channels. Love the brand, hate Tim Cook's inability to actually manage any aspect of the operation. It's all sliding on his watch.
Data on the Apple Store site is not reliable anyway. Yesterday every store was showing that the new Hue light models were in stock, yet local stores I called did not have inventory, did not know when they would have inventory, and had no idea what the products were. Apple's retail delivery is leaving a lot to be desired at the moment. If the site remains unreliable and store personnel remain uninformed (and totally indifferent), I'll be sourcing my Apple products and Hue lights through other channels. Love the brand, hate Tim Cook's inability to actually manage any aspect of the operation. It's all sliding on his watch.
Bah. I've experienced none of the "problems" you cite.
I can't say I know every provision in the DMCA, but this site was copying factual information, which is not protected by copyright law under Feist. Wish he would have tested the law in court, but I know why he didn't
Really, I thought the takedown was because of this:-
Your Use of the Site. You may not use any "deep-link", "page-scrape", "robot", "spider" or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Site or any Content, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Site or any Content, to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not purposely made available through the Site. Apple reserves the right to bar any such activity.
Data is considered to be facts, and is not eligible for copyright. That's why you can't sue someone for putting your address on their web site.
This is absolutely NOT DCMAable, and the company sending out the complaint can be sued.
That's why it's a complaint about the violation of terms of use of the Web site, not a copyright complaint. Apple has every right to disallow automated screen scraping of their Web properties, and others need to respect those rules. Sometimes it takes a friendly letter from a lawyer to remind people of the rules. As I said before this has almost nothing to do with the DMCA.
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Yes, that's the point. Ease of use.
Why? It makes it easier to find ipads you want in your area? Apple shouldve built this site themselves.
Totally agree. Why stop the information which the users are looking for and at the same time not providing the useful one-place-seeing-all info on their own website. Bad PR.
its giving WRONG info. You can tell true availablity until you put the item in your cart and check out
You mean even the apple site is giving the wrong info?
Data on the Apple Store site is not reliable anyway. Yesterday every store was showing that the new Hue light models were in stock, yet local stores I called did not have inventory, did not know when they would have inventory, and had no idea what the products were. Apple's retail delivery is leaving a lot to be desired at the moment. If the site remains unreliable and store personnel remain uninformed (and totally indifferent), I'll be sourcing my Apple products and Hue lights through other channels. Love the brand, hate Tim Cook's inability to actually manage any aspect of the operation. It's all sliding on his watch.
Bah. I've experienced none of the "problems" you cite.
I can't say I know every provision in the DMCA, but this site was copying factual information, which is not protected by copyright law under Feist. Wish he would have tested the law in court, but I know why he didn't
Really, I thought the takedown was because of this:-
Your Use of the Site. You may not use any "deep-link", "page-scrape", "robot", "spider" or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Site or any Content, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Site or any Content, to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not purposely made available through the Site. Apple reserves the right to bar any such activity.
Data is considered to be facts, and is not eligible for copyright. That's why you can't sue someone for putting your address on their web site.
This is absolutely NOT DCMAable, and the company sending out the complaint can be sued.
That's why it's a complaint about the violation of terms of use of the Web site, not a copyright complaint. Apple has every right to disallow automated screen scraping of their Web properties, and others need to respect those rules. Sometimes it takes a friendly letter from a lawyer to remind people of the rules. As I said before this has almost nothing to do with the DMCA.