Posted on 01/07/2008 10:24:39 PM PST by Swordmaker
Apple today announced that Andrea Jung, chairman and chief executive officer of Avon Products, was elected to Apple's board of directors. Andrea also serves on the board of directors of the General Electric Company and is a member of the New York Presbyterian Hospital board of trustees and the Catalyst board of directors.
"Andrea is a strong CEO and marketer and we look forward to benefiting from her insights and experience as a member of Apple's board," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, in the press release. "Andrea will be our eighth board member, and I think she will add a new dimension to our already lively board discussions."
MacDailyNews Take: "Plus, she always smells really, really nice," said Jobs. "I often go barefoot at board meetings, so that's quite a welcome contribution. The other Board members will be pleased about the improvement in air quality. Especially Al."
"Apple is clearly one of the most innovative companies in the world today," said Andrea Jung, in the press release. "I feel privileged to join this exciting and dynamic team and look forward to working closely with Steve and the board during the next phase of Apple's growth."
At Avon, Andrea is responsible for developing and executing all of the company's long-term growth strategies, launching new brand initiatives, developing earnings opportunities for women worldwide, and defining Avon as the premier direct seller of beauty products. She was elected president of global marketing in 1996, an executive vice president in 1997, president and a director of the company in 1998, chief operating officer from 1998 to 1999, chief executive officer in 1999 and chairman of the board in 2001. Previously, she was executive vice president of Neiman Marcus and a senior vice president for I. Magnin.
Andrea is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, is fluent in Mandarin and was the first woman elected chair of the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association in March 2001, a role she held until early 2005.
Avon, the company for women, is a leading global beauty company, with almost $9 billion in annual revenue. As the world's largest direct seller, Avon markets to women in well over 100 countries through over five million independent Avon Sales Representatives. Avon's product line includes beauty products, fashion jewelry and apparel, and features such well-recognized brand names as Avon Color, Anew, Skin-So-Soft, Avon Solutions, Advance Techniques, Avon Naturals, Mark, and Avon Wellness. Learn more about Avon and its products at http://www.avoncompany.com
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.
MacDailyNews Take: One word: Smell-O-Vision!
$1499 back in the early ‘80’s. wow! what a bargain back then.
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She should just cut to the chase and expand her lips to cover her entire face.
The original IBM PC Model 5150 cost $2999 in 1981 for the bare bones stripped version, no options. Such a deal!
i highly doubt that estimate. many people in the early ‘80s bought pc’s just because they were less expensive (not necessarily better).
http://oldcomputers.net/ibm5150.html
http://www.landley.net/history/mirror/timelines/2241419.html
“2. IBM PC 5150 — The smartest move IBM made in developing its entry in the growing personal computer market in 1981 was using off-the-shelf parts that were interchangeable. That was also its undoing. The IBM PC became a standard not because of the IBM brand, but because the design was easily copied and sold for less. Its original price tag was $3,000 for a base model with a single 5 1/4-inch floppy drive and 64 kilobytes of memory, and its Intel 8088 chip chugged along at 4.77 MHz. Still, the design of most of today’s Windows-based PCs is little changed.”
http://blog.wired.com/wiredphotos6/2006/12/9_ibm_5150_pers.html
On Aug. 12, 1981, IBM launched the 5150 and changed home and office life forever. The system packed a 4.77-MHz Intel 8088 processor and up to 256 KB of memory, weighed 25 pounds with “diskette” drive, and sold for $3,000.
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On top of that, my father still has the sales receipt for his original PC (long since consigned to the scrap heap). He paid a heck of a lot more than $3K for his - but the base price was listed there as, surprise, $3K.
Thank you for playing. You lose. Again.
Perhaps you should try recovering some of the bad sectors of your memory.
in that era, please consign me to the tandy trs-80 heap. my trash 80 was fun for a while. perhaps alzheimers is settling in. perhaps not. but, you win! you are the man! now please! i have to go and rearrange my sock drawer now. the whites just dont look right with the argyles (you know how it is i’m sure). tell stevie that he’s doing wonders with the market share. tata! =)
That's not an estimate... it's accurate.
Does this poke a large enough hole in your theory that people bought IBM clones instead of Macs because they were cheaper? Again, the Mac was competitive.
A Compaq desktop of approximate specs cost about $2,500 back then, and you were still just running DOS (no GUI). But if you want to count that the Mac included a screen and was portable, you're competing against the $5,000 luggables of the day.
I understand one change she is making is the 2009 Macs will feature the ‘F’ keys spraying a fragrance.
Each ‘F’ key will be different.
Apple Blossom is the default.
Better than the alternative. All the new keyboards from Microsoft in 2010 (which will be rushed to market to compete) will also use fragrance spraying F-keys. However, instead of pleasant perfume or cologne scents, Microsoft will attempt to use this to prop up flagging Vista sales by having the scents be “what you can smell when you open a window on a grand Vista.”
Scents will range from Alpine Meadow (which mostly won’t work and causes cancer) to Central Park (complete with the smell of vomit and spilled beer from the winos) and New Jersey.
New Jersey will be the default.
I’m a little surprised at this. Avon is considered the K-Mart of direct sales makeup. Not at all the upscale image Jobs likes Apple to project. Mary Kay is more along that path. Not sure what she brings to the table here...If you simply wanted solid business acumen, you could have gotten that anywhere.
I suspect it has more to do with: Female, Chinese, Fluent in Mandarin, Successful CEO. Apple is pretty big in Japan, but I don't think their Chinese presence is large. They would probably like to sell a ton of Ipods and iPhones there.
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