{"id":1085,"date":"2013-01-31T07:48:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T15:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2013-01-27T16:51:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T00:51:37","slug":"macworld-why-i-dread-going-to-the-apple-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/31\/macworld-why-i-dread-going-to-the-apple-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Macworld: &#8220;Why I dread going to the Apple Store&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Macworld has finally caught up to what I&#8217;ve been saying for some time now: the <a title=\"I hate the Apple Store\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/03\/i-hate-the-apple-store\/\">Apple Store sucks<\/a>, and <a title=\"an example of why I hate the Apple Store\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/19\/an-example-of-why-i-hate-the-apple-store\/\">here&#8217;s but one example of why<\/a>. \u00a0I never did write up the horrific time that I&#8217;ve had getting service on the MacBook Pro provided by my employer, which has AppleCare but that AppleCare seems to have bought me nothing other than extra annoyance from their staff.<\/p>\n<p>I can only hope that <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/29\/apples-mobile-software-and-retail-chiefs-to-depart\/\">Apple firing John Browett<\/a>, the head of its retail division, late last year can fix this issue. \u00a0Until I hear otherwise, I will continue to avoid the Apple Store unless absolutely forced to go in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Macworld has finally caught up to what I&#8217;ve been saying for some time now: the Apple Store sucks, and here&#8217;s but one example of why. \u00a0I never did write up the horrific time that I&#8217;ve had getting service on the MacBook Pro provided by my employer, which has AppleCare but that AppleCare &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/31\/macworld-why-i-dread-going-to-the-apple-store\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Macworld: &#8220;Why I dread going to the Apple Store&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}