Many department stores also discontinued selling TVs and low margin electronics.Īnybody buying cables and extended warranties at BB is just uninformed. I also think that BB is not doing well.įor that matter I think the day of the big electronics superstores are numbered.Ĭrazy Eddie, Circuit City and a few smaller ones I know all went out of business, because all of these guys compete with Walmart, Sears etc. Not being able to compete with prices and having crappy customer service that doesn't convince people it's worth the extra price). It will be more disappointing if it was just not being able to compete with online places - maybe it will be a combo of both. (and I'm just spiteful enough that if they do go out of business, I'm hoping it is their cruddy customer service chasing customers away that bit them in the a**. You don't want your store to look like it's doing badly. When they weren't doing well they started not updating the interior of the store, and doing stuff that made it look dingy and unfun to shop at. I hate to tell them, but I think that's a big thing that helped killed Circuit City. Half their lights were out (like how stores will put the lighting when the store is closed and it is only employees, but this was middle of the day) and it really made it feel dingy. I get the feeling Best Buy isn't doing so well. Last time I was in there was to check out the Nintendo 3DS. I will occasionally use them to go look at a product. I'm lucky I at least have a Fry's relatively close (with gas prices though they're far enough to be costly to get to :( ).īut yeah, I don't shop there. It's too bad that Best Buy is one of the few places these days to go to look at computer stuff, it's still nice to go to the brick and mortar store. The discount was pretty much non existant on computers cause of that reason. My roommate worked for CompUSA 10 years ago and their employee discount was that they paid what CompUSA paid for stuff. Pricing isn't about only charging a little more extra than what you pay, it's about what people will pay and what will actually get you a profit enough to run the business. So they have to make up for it in the peripherals which are dirt cheap but they can get people to pay a lot more for. Their costs are high on those that they can't really price them higher than what they pay). A lot of the items they sell are not ones they can make much, if any money on (laptops, computers, stuff like that. They will price something they feel the market will pay. Flash just isn't written well for apple hardware, and until it is, apple won't allow it on the iphone.Īs much as I really hate Best Buy (I will not give them a dime of my money, and it has been like this since 2001/2), I wouldn't hold this against them. Given that Safari is the fastest browser out there, I don't think it's apples fault. Second, As for your numbers for flash on Safari vs Firefox. The way I see it, if there is a pi$$ing match between Apple and Adobe, and Adobe takes its ball (Creative Suite) and walks away from Apple, the Mac OS will die, for all practical purposes.Īnyway, the iPhone must have Flash, if it is to remain competitive, and Apple really needs to dedicate some resources, and make sure Flash (and Java) run better on OS X.įirst, comparing flash for windows to flash for osx is like comparing apples and oranges. Adobe seems to be doing a very good job with 10, and from what I've seen, it runs just fine on mobiles presumably less powerful than the iPhone. I'd say it's Apple that has the problem, and not Adobe.įlash works just fine, and it's useful and necessary to the vast majority of users. But, did you notice the part where on a similar, C2D AOPEN Mini, running Windows 7, IE8 runs the same Flash movie at 0%-1%, Chrome and Firefox at 4%, but Safari goes to almost 30%.
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