[Am-info] Best Buy drops Mac titles?

[Mitch Stone]

--- From a message sent by Steve Cohen on 1/2/00 8:13 PM ---

>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.

Well, welcome to it. Those of us who have been following Apple and the 
Macintosh for years have always been mystified by the shabby treatment 
the products receive in the big retail stores. Almost any long-time Apple 
customer can relate an experience of being sneered at by some pimply 
clerk for even asking about a Mac-related product, such as software, 
cables or a book. I got so that if I didn't find it on my own, I would't 
ask -- that "why don't you get with the program?" look got pretty old.

Mitch Stone
mstone@vc.net