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No Space for MySpace at Mac Stores

by Tim Stevens on May 29, 2007 at 10:15 AM

You don't normally link the U.S. Military and Apple too often, so it may seem odd that the Mac-Daddy is taking inspiration from the Army. It looks like Apple has banned MySpace from machines on display in its Apple Stores.

According to the company's press release, usage of the site was taking up too much of the stores' bandwidth (sound familiar?). MySpace was also banned because stroll-by MySpacers were hogging the demo machines. Apparently they were spending such a long time browsing and updating their profiles that would-be customers couldn't sneak in to take the machines for a test drive.

This may be a small and logical step for Apple, but we hope the move isn't an indication that the company is taking more and more inspiration from military forces -- though an olive-drab iPod might actually be pretty cool.

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