One of the things I’ve always enjoyed about the Apple Store was that you could walk in and find a fully functional computer with a slew of applications and an internet connection. It gave users a chance to see how the apps worked, and for potential new buyers, a true experience of what the Mac OS was like.
Plus you could kill some time before a movie by checking the social networking sites. But no more! MySpace (Which still exists? You’re kidding me. MySpace? With the magenta and chartreuse backgrounds and the obnoxious MIDI files that play automatically and you can’t turn them off because the layout runs off the screen for 4,000 pixels? MySpace still exists?) was blocked from Apple Store computers in 2007, and now popular Internet time-sink Facebook has been added to the kill list.
tinyComb reports:
In an effort to thwart off time-theft and loiterers, Apple has decided to add Facebook to the list of banned websites at retail locations nationwide. When I asked some of the genius’ today whether or not anyone noticed the change, they all said Facebook stopped working sometime in the past week.
No word on whether this affects people using their own computers on an Apple Store network, or just the display Macs. Please brace yourself for your idiot PC friends to tell you that Macs don’t support Facebook at all.
But seriously, MySpace?
Via [tinyComb]
Wow, it would be interesting to take a random survey to poll how many consumers actually go to the Apple store just to waste time and use the display Macs for personal use.
I visited the MotherShip in Cupertino's and popped into Facebook to drop a profile pic in using one of the iMacs there. It was allowed then. That was in September 2008.
I guess the don't get quite as many time wasters in that store. They do however have the best inventory of any of the Apple stores.