Holy crap, I’ve landed in Hipster Worldwide HQ
5I’m at the Apple Genius Bar seeking satisfaction under Apple’s battery replacement program (which ends at the end of this month).
I’ve never seen so many manbuns, {white} dreads and fluffy beards gathered in a single location.
{Mod Edit - no racial slurs. No weirder versions of racial slurs.}
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/image matrix twins
@medz now I feel the urge to go watch this movie. That chase scene is so good.
Mod: thx for the edit. My comment wasn’t intended to be what it could be read as, and I didn’t consider the compounded terms. Mea culpa.
My Genius Bar experience was a letdown. First, they don’t serve drinks there. What kind of business model operates a bar, then doesn’t even serve liquid refreshment?
Also, they discontinued the iPad battery replacement program, stating “we didn’t mean to do that”. Finally, they will replace the battery in my iPhone “if you insist, but it’s not really going to make any difference.”
So I insisted, then discovered they wanted to keep the phone until tomorrow late afternoon.
No joy in Appleville today, folks.
I am considering driving back out there and dropping off the phone late this afternoon, and picking it up Saturday late afternoon. Although the area where the Apple Store is located is a parking nightmare.
@ruouttaurmind What did it smell like there?
@ruouttaurmind Last week they swapped out my battery no problem- it was ready in an hour and a half. And since I had an appointment they took me right on time and I got the stink eye from all the other bar patrons. That made it all worth while.
/giphy hipster stink eye
@medz Patchouly and Gypsy Water.
/youtube smells like teen spirit
@sammydog01 BUT… the key question: did they offer you a bourbon apple sangria while you waited?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@ruouttaurmind No.
@ruouttaurmind @sammydog01
No bourbon apple sangria. Just elderflower lime martini.
Ha! @mike808 is totally a hipster!
Why is looking like a hipster a put down? Who doesn’t like a sexy lumberjack?
/image sexy lumberjack
Edit: nailed it.
@RiotDemon I don’t intend hipster as a put down, just alien to my usual social circles.
And PS: Not really down with the sexy lumberjack scene either.
/giphy nope nope nope
@ruouttaurmind sexy lumber Jill?
@RiotDemon Closer.
@RiotDemon No sexier lumberjack than Michael Palin.
/youtube monty python lumberjack song
I just got home from a bar where there were no geniuses at all (excepting maybe for me, but I don’t count anymore after a certain number of adult beverages), but there was definitely a satisfactory quantity of liquid refreshment…
Ashamed to admit I own a pair of the underwear Meh displayed in the thread banner. Or not.
@PooltoyWolf of course those are a real thing. What else did I expect?
@RiotDemon It’s true! You really can get anything on the Internet!
There’s that serving at our local Apple Genius Bar… but also a full range of folks in various stages of life - all the way to otherwise retired. I give Apple credit for apparently recognizing it has customers of all “types”… and matching them with its store employees.
Tip for your Apple devices: the Apple Genius Bar can run a very thorough (and free) diagnostic showing the health of your device. The battery results, if healthy, for example 80%+… might lead you to skip the $30 battery replacement since they do have to open your device to do it. (Of course if they damage it, they’ll give you a “new”/“as new” recertified device.)
Always be sure to trigger a backup of your device before taking it in for any work on it. Love those Apple backups - 100% complete. After a restore, you cannot tell it is a different device, including recent calls, texts, web tabs, etc…
@RedOak I appreciate your suggestions. I definitely made a backup before heading in there. They ran the diagnostic on both devices (iPhone and iPad Pro).
As I mentioned, the phone qualifies for the $30 replacement, but sitting there on an uncomfortable wooden stool for many hours prompted me to pass for the moment. I have 5 days to show up and get the battery done, or start the process over. If I can figure out a less inconvenient time, I will opt for the replacement since the phone (6 Plus) is already a few years old, and I plan to continue using it as long as I can (another couple years maybe before it becomes so unsupported it’s useless?). So a $30 battery probably isn’t a bad investment.
As far as the representation of varied types at the Genius Bar, probably I didn’t experience that because of the location near my house is in a trendy shopping area in a wealthy part of an affluent community.
@ruouttaurmind our closest Apple Store is in a high end mall (Saks, Neiman Marcus, Coach, etc…) and has a Tesla showroom next to it.
The 6s is a perfectly fine phone and is aging well. I’d guess it will get at least one more, possibly two more iOS versions. And assuming it is in good condition, it should run snappy for another couple years. A battery $30 replacement seems like smart buy.
As with tablets over the past 2-4 years, phones are now getting much more mature (less different between gens).
Just as a 2nd gen iPad had a shorter useful life due to the still speedy technology curve whilst a 5/6th gen iPad will likely have longer “comfortable” useful lives, the same thing is happening in smart phones.
@ruouttaurmind BTW, the iPad Pro is an amazing tablet.
Our son is using it as a laptop replacement in his Engineering program. Much handier for taking notes, especially with diagrams, vs a laptop that might have trouble even fitting on a chair-table.
He’s not alone - lots of kids are using iPads in class, and even the 6th gen iPad does a fine job with notes now that it is Apple Pencil compatible.
He does also have a desktop and a Chromebook in his dorm room. But he never uses the Chromebook.
@RedOak I fell in love with my iPad Pro 12.9” from the moment I took it out of the box.
I liked it so much I wound up getting the iPhone about 4 months later. Then with the iPad and iPhone paired I like the iPad even more. Love the ability to make/receive phone calls and send txt msgs from the iPad, having everything sync automatically without a hiccup, and still getting adequate use of the Google apps and services. For example I still use Google Calendar, Gmail exclusively, and quite a bit of Google Docs.
Now if Apple could just stop screwing up the HI in OS updates. The last three major OS bumps have been a bummer.