I'd rather not see stupidity like what you posted on these forums, but that's the way things are.
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A Look at Apple's Handling of Customer Emails to Executives as Tim Cook Takes Charge
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I'd rather not see stupidity like what you posted on these forums, but that's the way things are.
Man, that is devoted... I rarely know, much less care, where the CEO of some company went to school.
This seems to always be done incorrectly on MR forums for some reason. It should be: "Never have I heard of someone returning it twice, let alone 8 times"
Wow; I guess I need a sarcasm font. I'm typing this from the third Mac our family has owned; my wife has an iPhone; we've had multiple iPods; and I am eagerly waiting for the release of iPhone 5. I'm not a fanboy, but I recognize that Apple is making some of the best products around right now.
It was a remark made in jest, and I'm not so narrow-minded as to base my consumer purchases on where a particular CEO went to school, especially considering how forward-thinking Apple is in so many aspects of their corporate structure (manufacturing, retail stores, advertising, design, leadership, etc.) with regards to environmental responsibility and diversity.
They're a great company with great products and wonderful developers. I enjoy using their products much more than my work PC or my Android phone. And I said, "I'll have a damn hard time" not, "OMG, Im never going to buy an Apple product again!"
Also, kickoff is in a few days. It's never too early in the season to start hating on your rivals.
Right, because it like totally stopped them from making Apple the most valuable company in the world.
I disagree. One thing that Jobs has always stressed is that you should always sweat the little details. Isolating himself under the auspices of 'managing the company' is not the Apple way.
While I most certainly agree that 8 times is excessive. I do understand why this happens, and I bet it happens a lot more than the posts here indicate.
Apple's ongoing practice to repeatedly hype products to such obscenely high levels, like "Magical & Revolutionary", that consumers have very elevated and unrealistic expectations.
It's reflected here in thread after thread.
Just my opinion, but I suspect that Apple will do fine making money even if Tim Cook doesn't fret over what's served in the cafeteria and even if he shares his opinions with everyone at once rather than with individuals who email.
It's the battle cry for the Western Opelika Community College in Alabama. According to their story, an eagle landed on their campus and they nursed it back to health. Although their school mascot is a Tiger, "War Eagle" is their battle cry. It makes no sense, but neither does vandalizing your own property after a football victory.
There are some CEOs who do the same thing regardless of the size of the company. I used to work for a medium sized company in Australia and as I worked in the complaints department, I knew for a fact that if a customer sent an email or letter to the CEO they got personalised responses from the CEO. Or if not from him, he personally read over any response we would send back to the customer to ensure that we were solving the customer's issue. It's good customer relation to ensure that people have faith that even if no one else will listen to them, the CEO of the company still cares and will still listen.
I say good on Tim for doing that!
I say good on Tim for doing that!
Although it shows compassion when a CEO responds to an email, I'm pretty sure he has a "team" of people with access to his mail answering alot of these for him. Plus he must have some things like filters set up for auto responses.
He's too busy spending his new money. just kidding.
He's too busy spending his new money. just kidding.
He didn't reply to me...
I emailed Tim Cook about Match coming to the UK and was surprised to receive a reply, although not from Tim Cook himself it was a response to my question and obviously not an automated response. I was impressed and emailed back thanking the sender for the response thinking it was some smurf that worked for Tim.
Id never heard of the sender but decided to Google the senders email address - it was cue@apple.com
I was impressed.
Obviously I can't be certain, but I do believe the email was actually from Eddie Cue.
I emailed Tim Cook about Match coming to the UK and was surprised to receive a reply, although not from Tim Cook himself it was a response to my question and obviously not an automated response. I was impressed and emailed back thanking the sender for the response thinking it was some smurf that worked for Tim.
Id never heard of the sender but decided to Google the senders email address - it was cue@apple.com
I was impressed.
Obviously I can't be certain, but I do believe the email was actually from Eddie Cue.