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Subject: [Leica] Trouble at the Genius Bar
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:08:22 -0500
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Nice catch!  Great expression of concern.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "H&ECummer" <cummer at netvigator.com>
To: <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 5:23 AM
Subject: [Leica] Trouble at the Genius Bar


>I was at the Apple Store at IFC II a couple of days ago. My MacBook decided 
>not to wake from sleep and its where the copy of my CS4 is kept which I use 
>to process my African pictures - so after making an appointment I went off 
>to get it fixed. I waited while they transferred all the data to a portable 
>hard drive (just in case) and saw this happening across the bar from me:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HKFall2011/Trouble-at-the-Genius-BarW.jpg.html
>
> GH2, 20mm f1.7.
>
> The Apple Store in Hong Kong was estimated to have twice the sales per 
> square foot to the New York store and one of the managers told me that 
> sales are in fact nearly four times!!
> While I waited for the data transfer the line up for I phones (limit 5 to 
> a customer) over two levels never diminished. There was a lot of mandarin 
> spoken in the line up. And it wasn't even for the latest model. The staff 
> had no explanation for the surge and just kept hauling the phones out from 
> the back. It was like a night market in the daytime and the ultimate 
> tribute to Steve Jobs. He made such desirable things that sell so well.
>
> Howard
>
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