Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Worm in the Apple

That a 'progressive' techie company with an admittedly geeky CEO will not protect its customers' best interests and privacy is indeed lamentable. Apple will not accept cash or even its own gift cards for the purchase of an iPhone.I know there are companies that will restrict the number of items sold to an individual buyer - that's fine, you want everyone to get a chance to buy the product - but explicitly forbidding cash and gift card transactions for a particular product is not only very unusual but very shortsighted as well.Let's hope they change their minds and do their part in protecting privacy (each cash-paying customer = one less credit card record to worry about!)
Be safe (and pay cash for the Zune!)
Just kidding, of course :-)

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