Costly Snowblower Mishap at Apple Store’s Glass Cube

[The Straight Story]

They say that those in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but those clearing the sidewalks near them might also want to think twice about using snowblowers.

The website 9to5Mac reports that one of the giant glass panels that surround the entrance to the flagship Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in New York City broke after an accidental encounter with a snowblower on Tuesday.

Fixing the mishap will reportedly cost about $450,000.

Despite the broken panel, the store remains open for business, though they have not set a date for when the glass panel will be repaired.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2014/01/costly-snowblower-mishap-at-apple-stores-glass-cube/

[ForgoTheConsequence]

1. Should have used Gorilla Glass.

Unfortunately the insurance company found water damage so it won't be covered under warranty.

[MineralMan]

2. Snowblowers throw stones very well.

I have a broken side window on my house as evidence.

These days, I always sweep the driveway thoroughly before he first snow falls. Even so, stuff still gets thrown from time to time that is not snow. That's why nobody should be standing in the path of the machine's discharge at any time.

[Wilms]

3. Good advice, again.

That's something that I've noticed you doing, as well. Much appreciated.

[MineralMan]

4. My pleasure.

Practical stuff is always good to know.

[Scuba]

5. A chunk of ice will do damage also. Good to aim the chute away from people, houses, vehicles, etc.

[jakeXT]

8. One piece fell from a truck directly on my windshield, during it's flight I was hoping it wouldn't

damage anything. No damage... but it sounded awful.

[MineralMan]

9. Very true. It can be challenging at times.

My driveway is shared with my neighbor, and is twice as wide as a driveway serving just one home. Our houses have the same setback on the lots, so there's about 28 feet of driveway that is between the houses. It's a fairly complicated process to snowblow that section of the driveway without throwing the snow further down the driveway, making it twice as deep or requiring a second set of passes.

I finally devised a pattern to follow that minimizes the problem, but it took a while to figure it out. Since my neighbor doesn't own a snowblower, I do both sides of the driveway. About 24' x 75' in total. It's easy enough, but takes a lot of time, especially when there's more than 6" of snow.

[tridim]

6. Any store that has $450,000 glass panels...

Is a store I will never bother to visit because it's obvious that I can't afford the products they sell.

[Scuba]

10. Foxconn employees will be forced to work even harder to make that up.

[Brother Buzz]

7. My dinosaur Apple computer crashed reading that article

Coincidence?

[Drew Richards]

11. Bullshit apples don't crash...they just make that little poofshf sound attributed to polite

Gentile high society women of the roaring 20's and then go black.

[Brother Buzz]

12. You're right

It was my antique Foxfire browser that crashed. The same browser that continually tells me to update, but my wussy Apple® computer doesn't have enough horsepower to support it.

[Drew Richards]

13. LOL :)

[jakeXT]

14. Still a PPC processor ? /nt

[Brother Buzz]

15. Yes

I think. My resident computer whiz-kid could answer with more authority, but he is off at college.

[jakeXT]

16. Did you hear of TenFourFox, or is your computer older than 15-20 years ?

http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/

TenFourFox is a web browser based on Mozilla's Gecko layout engine. It is a port of Mozilla Firefox for PowerPC-based Macintosh computers running Mac OS X to retain compatibility with the older architecture and older versions of the operating system, and to add PowerPC-specific optimizations for improved performance. The project was started after Mozilla announced that it would not release Firefox 4 for PowerPC versions of OS X. Like Firefox, it includes compatibility with a wide range of addons, Acid2 and Acid3 compliance, and HTML 5 and CSS 3 features; however, it also includes JavaScript just-in-time compilation,[1][2][3] custom builds for specific PowerPC processor families,[4][5] and AltiVec acceleration of key media codecs.[6][7] The primary maintainer is Cameron Kaiser.

The project shares administration with Classilla, a fork of Mozilla Application Suite for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS 8.6.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TenFourFox

[Brother Buzz]

18. Interesting...

and it looks like it may extend the use of my computer a bit. I downloaded the software, but I'm having problems getting it installed and working; I'll need to read the text a bit more to locate the glitch. I really miss my resident computer whiz-kid.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

17. Apple will come up with a patch for that fix.