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Posted on 09/13/2012 12:55:13 AM PDT by Loud Mime
With the grace of an accented vacuum cleaner salesman, Apple's promotional video star delivered a point by point sales pitch on the new IPhone 5. But why did they use a person whose appearance contrasted so heavily with a new product? Isn't he paid well enough to dress well enough?
The video is of high professional quality. Beautiful, rotating video images of the new product were interspaced with cuts of a human who hadn't shaved in four days, but sported a newly buffed cranium. His dress was a simple, gray t-shirt. It appeared to have been recently pressed, and, thank God, it had sleeves! But, what is Apple telling us with this strange, disrespectful presentation?
It may be as simple as this: We make shotloads of money, but still have no class.
I must say, I never see a doctor wearing a tie without wondering when he washed it last....
But, we work damn hard and make a good buck, as I know the people at Apple do. Wearing casual clothes has become trendy in some of today's workplaces, especially tech. And the guy in the video is Jony Ive, he designed the iPhone, iMac, iPad, and just about every other successful Apple product in the last decade. The t shirt, 5 o clock shadow, and jeans is his trademark, just....
As the turtle neck and jeans were Jobs. You don't have to wear a suit to be serious in the workplace and successful firms such as Apple and Google have shown us that.
End rant.
I just don’t see the mystique or appeal of being addicted to Apple products. I have a Samsung galaxy II S, it works fine for me.
fanboyz have kept me away from them since their (Apple’s laptops/ipads/etc..) inception...
About the dress/wear of them.. well, it’s their money and their choice.
(OT: I started with a TRaSh 80... moved onto a Lazer.. then Apple II... switched to IBM after that)
Yeah, what’s wrong this clown? Where were his spats and top hat?
What a stupid article.
Blame the Apple fanboys as much as you want, but Samsung is a Class A criminal company, known for scandals in its native South Korea, as well as for the recent court revelations regarding patent theft.
That said, Android is about to hit a boatload of trouble for stealing from Apple, and you will hear more about it soon. Besides, plasticky Samsung can’t come close to the physical engineering that goes into making the iPhone, but that may be acceptable to some depending on how much they prioritize having their egos massaged to suffer through an inferior product.
Fun reading:
http://gizmodo.com/5941817/what-really-made-steve-jobs-so-angry-about-google
Excerpt:
“Google’s Chairman Eric Schmidt made a potentially incriminating admission at Motorola’s new phone launch in publicly admitting that “we were late to tablets” and that only 70,000 of Google’s 1.3 million daily Android activations are tablets. That’s potentially incriminating because during 2008-2009, when Mr. Schmidt was still on Apple’s board, Steve Jobs made sure to keep Eric Schmidt in the dark about development of the iPad. Isn’t it interesting that when Mr. Schmidt was on Apple’s board and aware of the iPhone, Google was not “late” to the smart phone market (Google-Android now has dominant market share), but when Google’s Schmidt was out of the loop as a board director on the existence of the iPad, Google is somehow “late” to the tablet market?
The big overall takeaway here is that if Google’s leadership is willing and comfortable stealing from longtime personal friends and colleagues who have given generously to them and greatly helped them succeed at most every stage, Google could be expected to have no compunction stealing from people they don’t know. This also helps explain why Google has by far the worst intellectual property infringement record of any major American corporation and why so many companies and people are suing Google around the world for intellectual property infringement.”
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It’s mostly geographic. The southwestern part of the country (where Silicon Valley is, and lot of non-SV tech hubs) just isn’t into suits and ties and layers. If you see somebody in a suit and tie here there’s a good chance they’re in either the financial or funeral industries.
As an engineering Geek - what impressed me most about the entire presentation yesterday wasn’t the iPhone, nor the iPod. Sure, they are bigger, faster, better battery, and show improvements in scores of areas. The A6 may be the first appearance of the ARM Cortex a15 processor - which, while neat; is EVOLUTIONARY, not REVOLUTIONARY.
What impressed me was the EarPods. That was perhaps the neatest piece of re-engineering a tried-and-true product as I have seen. I gotta get a pair of those.
Do you know, LM, I once heard of a study that showed more than 45% of American men DO NOT OWN a suit?
I’d much rather be respected via the delivery of a great smartphone, than a lousy one by a suit.
Also, when iPhones start flying planes into buildings, then you can talk to me about iPhones. [RINOmney supporters favorite line...]
If he has only t-shirts in his wardrobe..... I can’t say it.
I simply believe that his dress indicates his respect for his audience. I doubt that the camera crew just dropped by his house on a Sunday morning and asked him to wing it. He dressed that way on purpose.
Somewhere, in my readings of Plato or Aristotle, the philosopher cited the decline of personal appearance as an indicator of a society in its downfall.
Those that want to modify their phones so that they resemble nothing that the general public can use, then please feel free to do so. Apple learned long ago that 98% of computers are never modified. 98% vs 2% where do you invest your labor?
I had a buck saw once to cut firewood then along came a chain saw, which to choose? Marcell did not use a buck saw :)
Why do they come in a box along with their product?
Speaking of boxes, Apple probably puts more design thought in their package than most PC manufactures put into the product in the box.
Freedom is a great thing.
I assume this post is a joke....... If serious its one of the dumbest ever on FR and that’s saying something.
Me too, and for another $170.00 I can get a free iPhone with them.
You sound old and miserable.
Togas?
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