Prix Iphone 5 Apple Store France

Apple has fabricated information technology extraordinarily piece of cake to walk into i of its stores, choice out the item you lot desire, purchase it, and get on your merry fashion—without having to wait in any line or interact with any store representative.

It's surprising more brick-and-mortar retailers don't brand buying then easy, though I doubtable they will in the non-likewise-distant future.

Here's how Apple's organization works. Commencement, you download and install the free Apple tree Store application from iTunes (current version: 2.1.ane). When you launch it, the app asks for permission to use your current location. (I said yes.) Next, you go on to your local Apple tree store and pick out something absurd to buy. Considering I'thou just non nerdy plenty already, I picked upward a $25 wristband to turn my iPod nano into a watch.

With the product box in one hand and your iPhone 4 or 4S in the other, you can open the Apple Store app, tap the EasyPay option and scan the box's barcode. (The app'due south in-store purchasing feature is merely supported on those 2 devices, and only in the United states and the Netherlands.) Boom, the production is charged to your Apple Store account, which is the same account you use to buy stuff from iTunes. And a receipt is automatically generated, which is emailed to you. You also click a link within the app to admission the receipt, should an employee ask to see one.

In my case, I slipped the product into my backpack after paying for information technology with the app. As I headed toward the door, my pulse raced a fleck. Information technology almost felt as if I were shoplifting. I wondered if a net would drop down upon me, accompanied by shrieking sirens and a swat team of stun-gun-wielding Apple employees yelling "Freeze, sucka!" Unfortunately, nothing quite so dramatic occurred. I simply sauntered out the door and proceeded casually to my next destination: The Container Store, a retailer with which I'k curiously obsessed).

The Apple Store app makes it easy to purchase products online, fix a Genius Bar engagement, get details about the nearest Apple store and look upward your local store's workshops and events. You tin also summon an Apple store employee, though in that location was one standing practically adjacent to me so I didn't test that characteristic.

I did, notwithstanding, ask the rep if you lot tin can purchase large-ticket items, such every bit iPads and MacBooks, using the app while in an Apple tree shop. He said no, because those items are kept under lock and key, as opposed to beingness stocked on shelves like iPhone cases (and iPod nano wristbands). Every bit a consequence, y'all need to interact with a sales representative for the expensive hardware purchases. But in my experience, they're e'er then helpful and pleasant it's a shame not to chat with them—fifty-fifty if Apple'due south app makes information technology unnecessary.