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Microsoft Store No Longer Accepts Bitcoins As Payment (techtimes.com)
westlake writes: It may come as a surprise to many here [but not all! -- Ed.], but back in December 2014, Microsoft began accepting Bitcoin.as payments for apps, games, and music purchased through the Windows Store, for its Win 10, Windows Phone and Xbox customers. Big-ticket items like MS Office were excluded. The service has been quietly discontinued. Crypto-currencies may excite the geek, but the Windows Store is mass-market and middle class, and the interest just might not be there.
Right now, one bitcoin equals 413.16 USD. One satoshi is 0.00000001 bitcoin, so each satoshi is worth 0.0000041316 USD. That means you need 14522 satoshi to have 0.06 USD.
If each satoshi were worth 0.06 USD, that means one bitcoin would be worth six million USD and I'd be a multi-millionaire.
Bitcoin is as stupid as gold or comic books or baseball cards.
Worthless crap, that only has value because a lot of stupid people think it has value and believe they can dupe another person into believing the same thing.
They also have built a very strong warranty model with AppleCare, they really do honor it without a fight so people are likely to purchase it, especially repeat purchase it if they've had a good experience before, and that brings people through the stores too.
I took in my 2006 MacBook into the Apple Store in 2012 to have the CPU fan and battery replaced. Despite being a "vintage" model and out of warranty, they were able to fix it. Due to a technician accidentally breaking a cable, they even replaced the keyboard/trackpad top. I got my MacBook back like it was brand new.