caskey

Do the other stores in the mall have large sheets of glass for entrances? Why does Apple have barriers at many of their other stores? How many instances has Apple had of vehicles used in smash in grabs at their stores over the years? If stores "have barriers installed behind their stores in for theft and loss prevention," why not in the front which is much more vulnerable, especially in this instance with a glass wall? There will be depositions and paperwork looked over with a fine-tooth comb in search of answers to all those questions and more. This is just the beginning of the lawsuits with at least two employees already suing (although they're currently not suing Apple, just the driver and the property owners).

22july2013 said:

I'm not entirely sure that it should be legal for someone to track other people like this and then post the tracking data online, especially when the person being tracked may be guilty of nothing. I'm fairly good at geo-locating places/people and I think there's a better than even chance I could find the name of the person who was handed the bag using this data. But I wouldn't want to post the name of a potentially innocent person on the Internet, because it just doesn't seem right.

Japhey said:

caskey said:

I know it's Apple doing it, but is this seriously newsworthy? A streaming service sends its subscribers a marketing email announcing a new episode? How on earth does that justify an article here? I get like 3 emails a week from Netflix and Hulu about new shows and movies too, but nobody is writing stories about that? 

Your editorial staff needs to practice a little bit more restraint. 

Maybe if the site was named Netflix Insider or Hulu Insider people would write articles about their marketing practices. But, as this little corner of the world is known as Apple Insider, this article is relevant to at least a few readers. You could always just skip the stories that don’t interest you, like almost everybody else does. 

And by the way, this wasn’t an editorial.

Japhey said:

caskey said:

I know it's Apple doing it, but is this seriously newsworthy? A streaming service sends its subscribers a marketing email announcing a new episode? How on earth does that justify an article here? I get like 3 emails a week from Netflix and Hulu about new shows and movies too, but nobody is writing stories about that? 

Your editorial staff needs to practice a little bit more restraint. 

Maybe if the site was named Netflix Insider or Hulu Insider people would write articles about their marketing practices. But, as this little corner of the world is known as Apple Insider, this article is relevant to at least a few readers. You could always just skip the stories that don’t interest you, like almost everybody else does. 

And by the way, this wasn’t an editorial.