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AMC Drops 'Texting Friendly' Theaters Idea (networkworld.com)

Posted by msmash on from the all-sorted-then dept.

netbuzz writes: Stung by a ferocious backlash on social media, AMC Entertainment this morning took to Twitter to announce that it will not be experimenting with "texting friendly" movie theaters, a trial balloon floated only days ago by the company's boss. "NO TEXTING AT AMC. Won't happen. You spoke. We listened," the company said.That escalated quickly.

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  1. Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe I'm missing something. I thought the comments on yesterday's article were quite over the top. Why is it so bad to provide a service to someone who wants it? Nobody is forcing you to go to the auditoriums designated for phone-users.

    Just because it's not something you personally like doesn't mean that someone else can't enjoy it.

    (For reference, I'm not personally interested in the movie theater concept, so I don't care one way or another. But if this is something that some people want, why not? It hurts nobody.)

    1. Re:Why? by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I'd guess perhaps because it validates this sort of rude, narcissistic behavior rather than shames it?

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      Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
  2. Re:Why not? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is "no excuse" now. If you're so deranged you can't stop trifling with your phone for 90 minutes then stay out of the theater. And stop causing crippling, deadly wrecks too; I personally know three twenty somethings that have caused serious wrecks fucking with their phones.

  3. Re: Why not? by omnichad · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People are used to pooping, too. They still leave the theater to do it.