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Apple clearly does not wish to make money off Genius Bar appointments; if they did, they'd charge a fee. They're providing it as a service to their customers to improve their experience. This is akin to taking food from a soup kitchen and reselling it at the market rate. Nothing 'brilliant' about it.

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I would not put them in the same bucket. I would put the Genius Bar thing into the same bucket as those Task Rabbit people getting paid to stand in line so someone else can show up last minute for the latest iGadget. I seem to recall people having mostly favorable thoughts about that idea. Taking food from the homeless is just jackassery.

If you can figure out how to take food from a soup kitchen, sell it at the market rate, and make a profit, you're brilliant.

Stand in front of the soup kitchen with a bat, declare the kitchen to be "yours", and demand people pay you tribute for admission.

That doesn't make you a genius, just an asshole.

That would make you arrested.

In an ideal world, yes. Homeless people are frequently preyed upon though, particularly in less developed parts of the world.

At a much different scale, consider warlords that sell intercepted donated food to the people it was meant to go to for free. They aren't geniuses, just massive assholes.

This is the kind of thinking that ruins good things for everybody.

There you go.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/isle_take_that_welfare_sc...

No, it's not a soup kitchen. The point's the same. It's just people acting as parasites. Nothing brilliant about it.

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