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Apple Re-Closes 11 Stores Just Weeks after Re-Opening Them (ibtimes.com) 30

Posted by EditorDavid from the sorry-we're-re-closed dept.
"Mere weeks after reopening over 100 stores, Apple has announced that it will be closing a number of its locations," reports the International Business Times: Eleven stores in Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina will be closing as of Saturday due to spikes in coronavirus cases in certain communities. The six stores closed in Arizona are the only locations Apple operates in that state...

All of the states affected by these closures have been amongst those seeing a new surge in COVID-19 cases. Experts suggest that these regions may be seeing a spike in infections due to the fact that they avoided the worst of the virus's initial spread across the U.S. Florida, in particular, have been singled out as a new potential epicenter for the outbreak.

"These are not decisions we rush into," Apple senior vice president Deirdre O'Brien explained as stores began to reopen last month. "And a store opening in no way means that we won't take the preventative step of closing it again should local conditions warrant."
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  • It's not surprising. They seem to be intentionally designed to get people milling around in close proximity to one another.

    Setting aside COVID-19, the new "structure" (for lack of a better term) really an annoying place when you're just wanting to get a device worked on.

    • Last time I took something in for service, with an appointment, I sat at the â€oegenius†bar for 20 minutes looking expectantly at the geniuses that were milling about, and got snotty looks or outright ignored for my trouble.  Guess I just wasnâ€(TM)t cool enough to be there, have to mail it in.

      • They got rid of the "Genius Bar", so now you have to find some employee out in the middle of the milling crowd, registar, then hang around and wait for some other employee to come find you (again, in the milling crowd).

        It's ridiculous.

  • Re, Florida (Score:3)

    by Rei ( 128717 ) on Saturday June 20, 2020 @07:32PM (#60207070) Homepage

    Eleven stores in Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina

    Question, re: Florida (as a whole). I've seen some news articles reporting (based on a "hospital snapshot" page) that Florida isn't simply having a spike in "cases" (they certainly are, and not just due to increased testing; the positive rate has risen significantly), but also a spike in hospitalizations. Yet I can't see such a spike in hospitalizations the Covid Tracking data:

    https://covidtracking.com/api/v1/states/fl/daily.csv [covidtracking.com]

    Can anyone reconcile this? Are daily hospitalizations in Florida (as a whole) actually going up or not?

  • It's not clear what goes on in the heads of people who are willing to visit an Apple store. The pandemic is not over. People should be getting out only to buy the essentials, like food and drugs, or walking a dog. Your five year old laptop or iPhone should still be fine in a pinch under such conditions.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by chrylis ( 262281 )

      Specify, using a predicate function (expressed in English or however), when "such conditions" are sufficiently in hand to permit people to engage in the level of economic activity of going to a computer store.

      • When the daily test positive rate stays low enough that the risk of uncontrolled outbreak is outweighed by the benefits of re-opening.

        If you want to quantify that, try "under 1%". For reference, Australia is partially re-opening now, with a positive-test rate of 0.4%. Some US states qualify now, others do not (e.g. Arizona is somewhere around 17%).

        • Nonsense, already proven masks, distance, barriers by cashiers, etc. are fine. Those getting infected are the morons throwing safety measures to the wind, or living with such. No need to cower like a cockroach in a crack.

          • Those getting infected are the morons throwing safety measures to the wind, or living with such.

            Exactly why lockdown is required in these cases. Enough morons will spread it to those they live with, and throughout the community, unless they're forced to stay at home. At the least you have to test widely enough to catch moron-caused outbreaks before they spread, and this is reflected in the test positive rate.

            • No we're not going back, deaths have tailed off to mild cold season levels, there is no reason to wallow in unemployment and poverty.

    • WHAT? Do you know how damaging it can be to a fragile ego to have people see you on social media or a Zoom call, using last year's equipment like a poor shmuck? Let alone using an Apple product that is FIVE YEARS OLD? That truly is a fate worse than death!

    • It's not clear what goes on in the heads of people who are willing to visit an Apple store.

      Basic risk assessment. The risk of catching something is actually quite low. Keep your distance, don't fondle the products, wear a mask, don't stay longer than necessary close to people and you'll be fine.

      I went shoe shopping Friday. The sports store was packed, I said fuck this I'll come back, so I did today. Few people in the store went in, tried some shoes on bought some, sanitised my hands on the way out. No life was risked.

      People should be getting out only to buy the essentials

      Also who are you to determine what is essential? In France the government specif

    • Your five year old laptop or iPhone should still be fine in a pinch under such conditions.

      You would think, but I have been shocked to discover during this pandemic that electronic devices don't seem to be respecting the disease and are breaking and wearing out at much the same rate that they were before COVID-19.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by tlhIngan ( 30335 )

      It's not clear what goes on in the heads of people who are willing to visit an Apple store. The pandemic is not over. People should be getting out only to buy the essentials, like food and drugs, or walking a dog. Your five year old laptop or iPhone should still be fine in a pinch under such conditions.

      Obviously someone read "re-open" and assumed Apple stores were open. Without actually seeing what was open, because you can't actually browse. They were open in limited ways - if you had an appointment to see

    • A significant number of people attended Trump's latest rally, and from the photos it looks like the majority of them weren't wearing masks. It will be interesting to see how that pans out in a few weeks.

      Apple has been requiring everyone in their stores to wear a mask, so the risk is likely minimal compared to visiting a gym, bar, or movie theater where masks aren't even required. In a nutshell, there are far worse things someone could be doing than shopping at an Apple store, and as I said at the start of

    • It's not clear what's going on in your head. Proven now that people wearing masks inside businesses, respecting distancing and with plexiglass barriers at registers and stations are fine. We need to get the economy moving, and we can do it safely. Stop being a coward telling others to cower.

  • When your state refuses to report COVID-19 hospitalizations (like Florida) the best way to find out if you shouldn't go out is to call your local Apple store to see if it is open.

    This is both very troubling and alas, true.

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