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Apple Bans Teens From Stores for Downloading iPhone Game - Wired

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Wired writes:

Apple store employees caught four teenagers doing the unthinkable -- downloading a third-party application onto a demo iPhone -- which prompted their immediate banishment from Apple stores "for life."

Two Palo Alto High School students -- Daniel Fukuba (left), 17, and Eric Vicenti (right), 16 -- met up with two recent Paly grads, Noah Rogers and Anjay Patel, at the Apple Store in downtown Palo Alto, where they made the mistake of downloading third-party car-racing game "Raging Thunder" onto the store's iPhone...
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bym051d - 569 days 14 hours ago
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Note, there is an update on the article with an Apple rebuttal.
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Imallvol7 - 569 days 14 hours ago
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2 - It this is true . . .
That is ridiculous. However, Apple has always held itself on a pedistile. I can't believe people actually follow them like they do . . . hanging on Job's every word.
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Proxy - 569 days 11 hours ago
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Atleast Apple can't ban them from using apple software ever again, because that would limit them to to like 98% of the software out there.
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MC_KOOL_K - 569 days 10 hours ago
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3 - Apple were never cool in my book {and will remain uncool until they offer me free shares}
its not like they downloaded some porn, A GAME WTF

apple are anti gamer
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OldGamer - 569 days 5 hours ago
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4 - Who cares,
those two kids look like little d*cks anyway. I wouldn't doubt they were trying to be smartasses and cause more problems in the store than has been reported.

It's Apple's store, it's their products these kids were f'ing with, they can ban whoever they want.
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iheartSONY - 569 days 5 hours ago
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5 - Steve Jobs says...
"You boys are banned from my store for using a phone I had on display for customers to use?" "Oh no wait I mean, you're banned for downloading a third-party game on a phone I said was now open to third-party developers?" "Oh what ever you're BANNED cause I said so!"
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