[jtr_47]

The stores are more sterile and the employees and service is more "clinical" and less "hands on."

I miss the original stores' refurbished/discount tables/bin they used to have. You could find great deals on those tables..

Oh.. one other thing that annoys the hell out of me about the stores an service. I bought a new iphone8, I asked if they could transfer the iphone5 data+ apps to my new phone. They said no, do it yourself.. I was pissed. A damn tech company, that sells a portable cpu for $700+ dollars and they won't perform a data transfer?

peace

[jeromegv]

Beside entering your iCloud user/password, is there anything else you need to do to transfer data to a new iPhone?

[mrunkel]

no. And they probably won't do it for that very reason, as they don't want to know your iCloud password.

Without it what service can they provide?

[xvector]

You can’t be serious? You think it would be reasonable from a security perspective if Apple was capable of transferring your data?

[jdsully]

They used to do that a long time ago. You would sit there with them as they transferred it off your old machine.

[xvector]

> They used to do that a long time ago.

Pretty happy they don't do that anymore, then. It sounds terrible for security.

[jdsully]

All they did was hook your old mac up to your new one with a cable and run the standard software. You sat with them and watched.

There's no reason they couldn't do something similar/more modern with an iPhone and not have a security risk.

[xvector]

> There's no reason they couldn't do something similar/more modern with an iPhone and not have a security risk.

Of course there's a security risk. The security model of both the Macs and the iPhones have significantly improved. The hardware security models make this a difficult engineering task - and a dangerous one.

[jdsully]

The modern day equivalent would be walking you through backing up to iCloud and restoring from iCloud. It’s not a security risk unless iCloud is one already.

[thirdsun]

What you describe sounds like a huge waste of everybody's time. Furthermore data migration on mobile devices mostly happens via iCloud these days - there's really no need to do that in store. It's part of the onboarding process whenever you boot up a new iOS device.

[jdsully]

A waste if you know what your doing.

For my Grandpa who’d never figure it out on his own it was a real benefit.

[PKop]

> transfer the iphone5 data+ apps to my new phone

Just ... sign in to iCloud? To "do this for you", you'd be giving them your credentials no? Seems like an unfair complaint.

[cardiffspaceman]

When I bought an iPhone 7 earlier this year, they walked me through the transfer of the data from my iPhone 5. It was more like me doing it with a trained assistant at hand. They were confused at first because iPhone 5's don't have all the options for transfer that newer phones have.

[scarface74]

Why would you want your data on their computers instead of either doing through iCloud or iTunes?