Plan for financial success: 1. Steal iPhones, 2. ???, 3. Profit!

@Rob: Sorry, number 2 of your statement is FALSE. By the letter of the law. If it has DRM on it, you cannot LEGALLY rip or copy it, even for yourself.

You can certainly claim "Fair Use" as a legal defense to do this, but the letter of the law says simply that you cannot. (a law that needs to be changed....someday...) That is the only reason Apple has never been able to include a "Rip DVD" button in iTunes. They would get sued by every Hollywood lawyer alive. :)

djjazzyjoe is my mac genius

I'm loving the South Park reference.

Is the first link above broken for anyone else or just me?

Nice try, but you need to have a 2nd step before ????.

I actually have worked at Apple for 2 years now as a Mac Specialist. I, along with the majority of my coworkers, follow the apple rumor sites in great detail. We talk about them all the time and actually learn a lot from it. Our bosses don't mind (many of them do it themselves), but try to deter us from acknowledging rumor sites to our customers. And the reasoning for it is actually quite logical. If we start commenting on what we expect to be released or stuff that's technically illegal, it's a PR nightmare.
a) Apple becomes liable for what its employees say, so if we give them wrong information based off of a rumor site, they have to handle that.
b) Somethings people want to know is illegal. Such as music or dvd ripping.

Often times, though, you can learn about a lot of fixes and 'how to' stuff, which Mac Specialists can then pass on to the customers.
Apple does not care at all about hiring people who read the rumors sites, as long as they don't make a PR nightmare for them by making promises about products that haven't been announced yet. When I was hired, I was even asked about what tech sites I read, so that could not have been a factor.

I'd imagine the main requirement is that whomever they hire be willing to work for whatever they'd pay. Seriously, I don't expect the guy at my liquor store to give me good advice about wine, and I don't expect the guy at the bookstore to be able to tell me which translation of Kant's First Critique best handles Kant's 18th Century prussian-german.

In my few experiences at the apple store, they are pretty solid about helping with the basic issues, or the more common issues, but there definitely are things above their "pay-grade" that they can't help with. So, sure, they'd love to hire experienced mac-users, but if you've got 20 years experience using mac software, I doubt that you'd want to get paid what a retail store can offer anyway.

actually a friend of mine that works there told me that
they actually hire people that know very little about macs
in hopes that they will be as ignorant as the consumer. and only know what want them to know .

I seriously believe this because , They hired a friend friend of mine and when I saw that he was working there I was like " Hey I didn't know you were a mac guy" and he was like " actually I am not I dont even own a mac. But now that i see how cool these things are I am totally Getting one".

or something along those lines. Either way I just think this is really funny.

J.

Steal underpants...

I live in this town and Chris interviewed me for a position that I did not get . I see the logic in apple. Do not hire people that check tuaw 25 times a day, own 6 new gen macs , love people , friendly and not a thief.

But let this kid manage and do the interviewing for the store . and steal a 150,000 dollars worth of iphones?