[Am-info] Best Buy drops Mac titles?

[Steve Cohen]

Paul Rickard wrote:
> 
> stevecoh@mcs.com
> 
> >Over New Year's Eve I was speaking with a friend who told me that he
> >tried to buy as Christmas presents, software for the Macintoshes in his
> >house.  (They are an all-Mac household.)  As he has done before, he went
> >up to the nearby Best Buy and tried to browse the shelves.  There was no
> >longer a Mac section nor could he find any Mac titles.  So he asked a
> >salesman who told him words to the effect of "Yeah, we cut a deal with
> >Microsoft so we had to get rid of the Mac section."
> 
>      BestBuy dropped Apple products, but not because of Microsoft. Apple
> made them buy the machines in packs of five colors, one of each, but BB
> could only sell the blue ones - the other four colors weighed down their
> inventory. Apple tried to make a deal wherein they sold a 6-pack with 2
> blues and one each of the others, but BestBuy didn't go for it.
>      Apple has since then (apparently) changed that policy, since Sears
> only sells blue and red iMacs - which is why I bought my Lime machine
> from ClubMac. I got a better deal from them anyway, extra RAM tossed in
> for less than the base machine at Sears, even after shipping.
> 
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So this is nothing new.  Seems kind of stupid, but I'm not sure who is
the stupider - Apple for forcing colored iMacs down the throats of
retailers who don't want to be bothered selling them (customer is always
right, no?) or
Best Buy, who whatever their decisions about Apple machines, cuts off a
certain small but vital segment of own customer base in software.  I
suppose iMacs are mostly sold through online channels these days? 
That's where I bought mine.  Best Buy is the last place I'd go for such
a purchase.

I suppose they're still selling Linux because there isn't a "difficult"
hardware side to the product line, but I can't imagine that very many
copies of Linux are bought there.