Comments on: Texas Apple Store Burglarized http://www.ifoapplestore.com/db/2008/06/05/texas-apple-store-burglarized/ news and information about Apple Inc.'s retail stores Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:08:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Mark Wilson http://www.ifoapplestore.com/db/2008/06/05/texas-apple-store-burglarized/#comment-29459 Mark Wilson Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:34:34 +0000 http://www.ifoapplestore.com/db/?p=2736#comment-29459 Security should always be a consideration. This is retail. Stores with glass fronts to open streets should be double secured. Have the glass in front and behind the display area. Cold climates such as the Aspen Grove store in Denver should be double doors. I would hate to work or shop at a store for Christmas and be looking at a MacBook Air and have the door open to sub-freezing wind. Apple could use gates to double secure these locations. Things that can be totally moved out of the way during business hours. Also, maybe display computers should be display only. Any reason why they need working CD/DVD drives in them. Crooks completely wipe out the hard drive so it looks new. Also special short-life batteries. Maybe even a special serial number series. And Apple should support a website listing stolen computer serial numbers. I think that they don't do it now because it looks bad to potential customers. (And your investment is a prime theft item.) Serial numbers reported by consumers must include a police report. Security should always be a consideration. This is retail.
Stores with glass fronts to open streets should be double secured. Have the glass in front and behind the display area. Cold climates such as the Aspen Grove store in Denver should be double doors. I would hate to work or shop at a store for Christmas and be looking at a MacBook Air and have the door open to sub-freezing wind. Apple could use gates to double secure these locations. Things that can be totally moved out of the way during business hours. Also, maybe display computers should be display only. Any reason why they need working CD/DVD drives in them. Crooks completely wipe out the hard drive so it looks new. Also special short-life batteries. Maybe even a special serial number series.
And Apple should support a website listing stolen computer serial numbers. I think that they don’t do it now because it looks bad to potential customers. (And your investment is a prime theft item.) Serial numbers reported by consumers must include a police report.

]]> By: Brian Kaempen http://www.ifoapplestore.com/db/2008/06/05/texas-apple-store-burglarized/#comment-29448 Brian Kaempen Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:17:17 +0000 http://www.ifoapplestore.com/db/?p=2736#comment-29448 The question is what can be done. I mean Apple has these really beautiful entrances and windows that are just glass, no other sort of security measures. But what can they do besides lock up the computers with actual locks and not the little beeping devices? The answer is nothing. They won't use those locks, they already have cameras in all their stores, and they most certainly will not add security gates over both the windows and the doors, only mall stores have the gates because they don't have doors, so come closing time, something needs to keep people out. Hopefully Apple has some sort of custom Lo-jack installed, that'd be sweet if they could track down their own computers themselves. I want to see Steve Jobs go all Las Vegas pitboss on these crooks. -Brian The question is what can be done. I mean Apple has these really beautiful entrances and windows that are just glass, no other sort of security measures. But what can they do besides lock up the computers with actual locks and not the little beeping devices? The answer is nothing. They won’t use those locks, they already have cameras in all their stores, and they most certainly will not add security gates over both the windows and the doors, only mall stores have the gates because they don’t have doors, so come closing time, something needs to keep people out. Hopefully Apple has some sort of custom Lo-jack installed, that’d be sweet if they could track down their own computers themselves. I want to see Steve Jobs go all Las Vegas pitboss on these crooks.

-Brian

]]> By: Neal Eaton http://www.ifoapplestore.com/db/2008/06/05/texas-apple-store-burglarized/#comment-29442 Neal Eaton Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:27:26 +0000 http://www.ifoapplestore.com/db/?p=2736#comment-29442 Well...the good thing is that when they try to take these machines on-line, that their IP addresses will show up, and SOMEONE will be able to track them. Well…the good thing is that when they try to take these machines on-line, that their IP addresses will show up, and SOMEONE will be able to track them.

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