Trip to the Apple store today... 2865
Lefty Bigfoot
Nobody's saying the Apple store is a place to go hang out. We're talking about a store here, and it should be judged in comparison to other stores. The benefits you mention of going to the store over going to the website are also pretty major. I don't really see what your complaint is.
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I'm not sure what that means. The guy made a presentation, showing how to do some cool things. He answered everyone's questions. He spent time talking to me one on one after, to answer even more questions I had. I already own the program. In fact, it was one of my motivations for making my recent switch to Mac. As far as I can tell, it's by far the favorite for music sequencing among professional musicians, and already was so before Apple bought the company that created Logic.
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Why exactly should I complain about this or fall asleep?
If you're annoyed by finding salespeople in an Apple store, it's not the place for you. But I don't go to a place looking for reasons to be annoyed. I look for what I can get out of it. There aren't that many places in this world where you don't find salesmen of one kind or another. The point is that Logic Pro is a pretty hard program to master, and it's useful to have someone who actually knows the program making a presentation and answering questions. To find someone who knows a program as complex as Logic in a store like that, talking about it for free, is not something I'm going to knock. I don't care if Apple pays the guy because they want to sell more copies of Logic Pro. That's what makes the world go round. Yes, if Apple doesn't make money selling Logic Pro, there's going to be no guy in the Apple store talking about it, and there's going to be no Logic Pro, either. And if it weren't for people making money selling things, we wouldn't have computers either or an Internet, and maybe we'd be in a cave somewhere shivering.
I'm sure this varies from city to city. My city is pretty highly educated in general, so the salespeople here might be on a higher level than is typical. But the point I'm making here is that, one way or another, the store here actually has people with some real understanding of computers. As far as I can recall, I've never found such people in any store where PCs are sold.