Being in New York, I couldn’t miss the opportunity to pop in the Apple Store in Grand Central station. It’s quite an impressive store. I was somewhat underwhelmed by the visit as I went there looking for several things. Basically because I couldn’t buy any of the things I intended to buy.
What was I looking for at the Apple Store
Firstly the Apple Watch, I want a strap in light blue. I know they don’t do it anymore, but I thought I’d inquire to see if they had any older stock left. Nope, no dice, though I found out they are due for a refresh in colours pretty soon, which is cool.
The Smart Cover / keyboard for my iPad Pro 12 inch in something other than dull black. Unfortunately nope, that’s the only colour they do it in. Next, I asked if I could get a replacement for the one I have. Due to the letters that are fading or have come off. What did they tell me; I was told unless I took out Apple Care no I couldn’t. This is something to do when back in the UK. I have discovered that it does come in white, just now when looking on-line, so I’m not a bit p’d off. Here is where you can buy it online.
I asked for a citrix mouse, I wasn’t holding my breath, but I thought they could possibly have one. Nope, they didn’t know what I was talking about. They just pointed me to the two mice that they do, that was a shame.
A SD Card reader dongle for my MacBook Pro Touchbar would be nice. Again no dice, this connector has been taken away. Apple has not even provided a dongle to enable you to plug in your SD Card! Why not use a camera to plug in the SD card in they said!
Dongle-gate moan
I thought, well they don’t have anything that I can buy, so I’ll have a moan about dongle-gate. So that’s what I did. Probably shouldn’t have given the Apple Store guy I spoke to a hard time, but why not. It sucks. You pay huge amounts for a new piece of kit. Then you have to shell out even more to enable it to actually work or connect to anything. Shocking Apple design.
