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.
Wonder if my new iphone will run better if the CEO wears a nice tie? People let the weirdest stuff effect their shopping decisions. Maybe I’ll wear a suit to verizon to pick one out.
You do realize that guy is Jony Ive, the $10,000,000/year designer of all iDevices? He has other things to worry about than dress and whiskers while earning more than $1/second.
So, he could afford a better T-shirt?
Let’s review his options:
- earn a dollar a second
- fuss about shirts.
I’d just throw on a t-shirt.
Let’s review his options:
dress like a homeless bum
dress like someone who cares about his appearance
Regardless of what he wears, he STILL MAKES MONEY.
Why do you care about his appearance so much?
The hyper-successful tend to wear what’s comfortable and focus on being hyper-successful. Steve Jobs, George Lucas, Stanley Kubrick, etc - the list goes on - all cared little about their appearance (in your terms), often unshaven and always wearing the same bland outfit. Jony works in a machine shop all day, so the appropriate outfit is a gray t-shirt and jeans and shaving only when stubble gets annoying; dressing up to impress you derails his thought process.
Methinks you don’t understand how utterly obsessed such people are. Changing mental gears to dress up is a problem when you’re juggling million-dollar thoughts all the time. Changing his outfit is, in a sense, lying: anything other than his daily norm attire isn’t who he is.
The issue is how someone cares for their personal appearance. You say that other people dress down; sure they do! What if all the the successful software engineers wore only their underwear?
Well, they are, on top, anyway. Hence, this thread.
Earlier I made the comment that dress revealed the respect that you had for your audience. When I do public appearances, which I do, I dress properly. Next month will be a coat and tie appearance to a group of about four hundred people. Am I wrong for dressing up for my audience? Or, should I tell them to stick it; I’m dressing how I want to because my ego demands you accept me as I am?
Tell me, would you think any less of a person who dressed in a nice shirt, possibly with a tie? Or, does the T-shirt thing get your gears turning?
Apple execs dress for the Cool. They may even have used focus groups. The Cool of all ages buy Apple products, just visit any Apple store to see.
If you’re good enough, your audience won’t care how dress. They’ll even consider it a sign of your excellence.
If your’re not that good (not a put down, just reality for most of us), you’ll have to dress up.
“how you dress”. Typo.
BTW, “what if they dress in their underwear” is stupid because they don’t. Supermodels, on the other hand, we don’t object to seeing in their normal work attire.
It seems consistent with the apple je ne sais quoi.
By the way, even in Hollywood, many don’t like the idea of dressing up in a business suit and tie. Why? Because it shows an image of being too “square” and unwilling to change.
Ahhh.....the magic word: Change!
Oh, yeah?
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