CNN's Gena Somra speaks to a student who says Apple refused to sell her and I-Pad for speaking Farsi. For more CNN videos, check out our RU-vid channel at / cnn Or visit our site at www.cnn.com/
Haha I know right? So outdated. The future isn't now, bunch of unadvanced retards trying to feel special about themselves buying dated shit that's existed since the 90s just repaclaged with gimmick fad bullshit to make it useless and overpriced. Bunch of pathetic fucking cavemen.
Hi, my name is Rod X and i am a recovering apple user. I quit using apple products after i had to replace 3 iphones in a year and the 4th went bad before my 2 year contract was up, but the warranty was up after 1 year. I went ANDROID and never looked back. YASHTY100, yeah a store? what is that? It just so happens that i am shopping online right now. YOU know. ha ha
I would have simply said...this is America. im an American. Here is my drivers license and demanded the sale. Why even mention Iranian? He asked what language were you speaking and she gave an answer. Period.
In America, you can refuse service to anyone. Should be for any reason. Fuck the federal age discrimination law is discriminatory... So what does that say...
wtf are u talking about? two sisters were talking in Farsi and meanwhile, the employees asked what language were you two talking? and then he refused to sell them shity apple products.
Hourani that is the wrong attitude. Reporters are supposed to report. If something is absurd, they should acknowledge the absurdity. Instead they just try and play neutral in ALL situations, and bible scholars and literalists are placed as equals against educated scientists and doctors in debates.
Bollocks to Apple. I watched a video where someone went into an Apple store and pretended they were from Samsung, and then vice-versa in a Samsung store. In the Apple store he got told "you can't film in here" and was eventually forced out. In the Samsung store everyone cheered and laughed with him. The staff joked about how shit Apple were and were very nice about the joke.
A quick search on youtube would have found it. Try searching this, pretending to be from samsung in apple store.Or if you dont want to do that here is a link to the top video from that search wich i think is it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2hNuBjXploE.html
Sounds like the Apple employee needs a higher education. The Apple policy was not against selling products to anyone, including Iranians, in the U.S. It prohibits selling products, "directly or indirectly", to Iran. Only if the Apple employee had knowledge that anyone (Iranian or other), was trying to deliver the device to Iran, could they refuse a sale.
If I was the CEO I would have sent her every single high end Apple device that they made to her front door. And briefed the staff. That would have been a much better message than "[nuh uh!]".
I think she should sue the employee and not apple, because any other employee (in the right mind) would have sold it to her, and would have left out all the country relations bullshit.
Ok, STFU. "Apple" didn't discriminate against this women. An Apple employee did. As far as I can tell he didn't do so because he was trained to do so by Apple. He didn't do so because an Apple policy directed him to do so. He did work for Apple, in and an Apple store, so assuming this happened as told, Apple owes the women an apology, and they should discipline the employee accordingly. Ultimately they are responsible for the actions of their employee while he is on the job. I personally think the appropriate discipline should be termination. If the women wants to sue, that is certainly her right. However, to turn this into a campaign against Apple for being discriminatory as a company is total bullshit; unless there is some proof that this mans discrimination was at the direction of the Company. The guy is a jerk, fire him, move on. This women wasn't hurt by this. GROW UP.
I mean you can’t exactly tell her how she felt can you? No. You can’t put words in her mouth, tell her how to feel, or say that she’s acting immature when she actually is a child. She’s a young woman who is impressionable and at an important time in life. What the employee did wasn’t correct, and it shouldn’t have happened- plain and simple. He obviously through all good sense out the window that day and decided to let his bigoted opinions rule. He should pay the consequences now. I hope he did.
Forget about the Ipad!... How did she get the Mac Book Pro... lol... Just give her the Ipad for free and a life time service plan... with all of the know accessories...
Chakravarti J 1) she's 19 (during this video) 2) this was posted about 5-6 years ago. 3) he/she was just giving compliment. 4) if you really got triggered because someone gave a normal, nice compliment just means that the real person who has issues is actually you.
if its law and regulation its normal then...you can't know that she won't take it out of the country or anything.... tho its kinda stupid that she can't buy one
It is not normal to assume that because she is originally from Iran that she will probably take it to Iran with her. The employee had no knowledge of whether she even intended to ever go back to Iran. Unless she explicitly states that she will take it there, then he shouldn't assume.
Are you fucking stupid? She's an American citizen. By your logic, you would not be able to sell to anyone, for fear that they would sell it in Iran, which is perfectly legal by the way. It doesn't include individual sales. Man, RU-vid is full of fuckwitts.
To the question of what language do you speak she could of replied in impeccable English. "I'm going to allow you to make an educated guess. What language do you suppose I speak?"
Thats the first thing that came to my mind when I see their policy. He took it as literally don't sell them this product because of where their from instead just selling it to her and let TSA deal with it.
He's an idiot, it says don't sell to Iran, someone from Iran isn't Iran, you can sell it to her, if she chooses to take it overseas to Iran that's her problem not Apple's
Chakravarti J have you even been to Georgia? I was there few years ago for basic training, and mostly blacks all around Columbus and Atlanta WTF you talking about.
You're part of the problem. The lack of understanding that some of you bitter ass people have towards other minorities is ridiculous and undermines your own personal discriminatory experiences. Next time you have an experience like this...think of it as karma, jerk. P.S.... she's an american citizen idiot. I'm pretty she's not ignorant of the shit show that is America at this point.
To all the people who are commenting “oh she should’ve just gone to another store or buy online why she making a big deal out of it” that’s not the point you guys clearly don’t understand
It's likely what actually happened was that an employee executed their own rogue policy. If she tried to go to a different store or even a different representative she probably could have bought the item.
I used to work in computer sales. I did this for about 10 years. There are certain countries that the US can not sell to due to Federal laws. If you do sell to anyone who is planning to take those computers to those embargoed countries, you can go to Federal prison for it. The countries are listed at about 50 seconds into the video, I do not know if that is from Apple or the Federal government. Also the company that sells it to those people can be fined, and even denied the ability to do business in the US.The key is if the person says they are only going to use it in the US, then you can sell it to that person. If they say at some point that computer is going to be entering Iran or any of the other embargoed country then it is against the law, and the person selling it could go to jail.I had to refuse service to a man, because he was going to buy a computer for his brother who lives in Iran, I told him that it was an embargoed country and I could not sell it to him because of it. I was going to sell it to the man, until I found out about the computer going to Iran, I did not want to go to jail over it. The man then spoke to my boss, calling me a racist for not selling him the computer because he was from Iran.These laws might have changed since I was working as a salesman, that was 15 years ago, but they applied to seven countries. The ones I remember were North Korea, Iran, Cuba, and Libya at the time.
