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    <title>An Apple Store a day keeps the dreadful designs at bay</title>
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    <published>2007-05-24T23:12:35-05:00</published>
    <updated>2007-05-24T23:12:35-05:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Laura Scott</name>
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    <category term="Apple" />
    <category term="business" />
    <category term="design" />
    <category term="MySpace" />
    <category term="web design" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>So we learn from <a href="http://notes.thinksecret.com/secretnotes/0705myspaceban.shtml">Secret Notes</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Apple's stylish stores and computers, all of which feature unrestricted Internet access, have become such the hang-out and gathering place for MySpace junkies that the powers that be have elected to block the popular social networking site from its systems.</p>
<p>By the close of business Thursday, most Apple retail stores will have implemented the block, designed to reduce the level of loitering at the stores.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>More likely Apple's design aesthetic just cannot brook <a href="http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/071406.html" title="MySpace is the Geocities of the aughts">dreadful MySpace page designs</a> appearing within their bricks and mortar.</p>
<p><i>The horror! The horror!</i></p>
    ]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>So we learn from <a href="http://notes.thinksecret.com/secretnotes/0705myspaceban.shtml">Secret Notes</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Apple's stylish stores and computers, all of which feature unrestricted Internet access, have become such the hang-out and gathering place for MySpace junkies that the powers that be have elected to block the popular social networking site from its systems.</p>
<p>By the close of business Thursday, most Apple retail stores will have implemented the block, designed to reduce the level of loitering at the stores.</p></blockquote>
<p>More likely Apple's design aesthetic just cannot brook <a href="http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/071406.html" title="MySpace is the Geocities of the aughts">dreadful MySpace page designs</a> appearing within their bricks and mortar.</p>
<p><i>The horror! The horror!</i></p>
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