Not only do you not understand the new Apple, you don't even understand the old one. When were they ever a tech company bound to regular product releases? Not under Jobs. Just look back on the old forums to see complaints about withering product lines like Mac Pro, Mac Mini and laptops in favor of hot new products like iPods and iPhones. Apple chases whatever is in fashion which is what makes them great and contemporary. They don't follow industry trends, they make them.
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Angela Ahrendts Talks Concepts Behind Next-Generation Apple Stores at Most Powerful Women Summit
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This kind of lame comment is as predictable as the sun rising every morning. "Boo hoo, I'm not satisfied being in the privileged white male class of people 99% of the time so I have to whine about everyone else getting a few seconds of attention and trying to raise ourselves up to the same level."
Besides, isn't every summit with all men on the panel the "Most Powerful Men Summit" in their own minds?
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Herring or mackerel?? I did like you comment, and LOL'ed when reading it, but it is bated not baited. Apologies for being the GPolice on this one.
Not really that veiled. White males whine so much about everything not being all about them anymore they should bottle it and sell it in liquor stores.
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If you aren't a woman, you have Zero idea how hard it may or may not be for us. And, btw, most women won't admit to YOU how hard it is for them because it might make them look weak and women aren't allowed to show ANY weaknesses.
I have an AMAZING idea for Apple Retail. They could return to the days when they were good actually good at in-store customer service. For example, when you make a service appointment for 5:00, you wouldn't have to wait until 5:40 to get help. Genius! Or, you could stick with the current plan of 30 people in Apple t-shirts with iPads and radios standing around doing nothing while customers wait. Either way!
Here's an idea. Instead of passively waiting for them to approach you how about YOU approach them and ask for help? Works for me every time (although every time I go to the Mall of America Apple store I get approached right away).
Indeed! It's almost as if there is some sort of... oh, what would the word be for it... "inequality" between men and women, and as a result women feel compelled to... how do I put this so it can be understood... "do something about it". Shocking, really.
Likewise, if you aren't white or male, you have zero idea how much criticism you get for something that others did in the past. Or how much reverse discrimination there is.
Most of us had to work very hard to get where we are today. As males, we didn't have the choice of it being okay to get married and stop working, at least not until recently. Nor was it considered okay to stop working and go on welfare. Nor could we avoid the military draft. Try getting a deadly low number picked (#39 for me) and realizing you could be getting sent to die in VietNam. Really dampens your day, let me tell you.
Nor could we claim some minority status. I remember after we got out of the Army, my married buddy with two young children would go to get some extra help from the university. He got almost nothing because he was white, while minority non-veteran single non-family guys were given enough to get an apartment and food. So he had to take an extra job to pay for such things for his family, while going to school. So much for the supposed privileged white male status.
As you should well know, nobody should criticize any other group, unless they've walked a mile in their shoes.
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One of the top reasons the Genius Bar queue ran late at the store I worked in was when multiple customers would waltz in 10+ minutes late for their appointments and raise holy hell when told they'd have to schedule another appointment. These folks would been seen anyway, throwing off just about every reservation time that tech had for the rest of their day.
Oh please, I'm an African American male 5th year Civil Engineering major. I absolutely despise the engineering labs because most of the women are constantly(I mean constantly) asking for help. They adore the attention that comes with looking incompetent. As a male, I find this annoying as hell, and it doesn't look cute.
I stand by what I said. The women truly putting out good work seem to be least vocal, because they spending their time actually working.
It's always extremes. You're in a store with 30 sales associates standing around doing nothing, and other folks are posting about stores where they can't find a "not busy" sales associate if their life depended on it.
I don't think she can do her job if the products are outdated; however she could stop building more stores till they get their inventories intact. It looks like she's spending money to open up more stores for the sake of it.
I was using Apple probably before you were born - since Jobs 1. I think I've got a handle on what they do and when they fail. The only time they make industry trends is when they creating cutting edge products, not try and sell 3 year old ones.
Such a waste of money tbh. If this was a small business at least half of them would have been gone.
Boy are going off topic. If anything is Fascist, it is being politically correct. We are just purging yet another passive aggressive political agenda.
The talk was decent but Angela really needs a fashion makeover. That outfit did not work at all. From her limited movements in the video, I kept on wondering of there is a recent injury or other health issue.
Well, I'm also white so I kind of doubt I'm racist against whites. Just base my opinion on what I constantly see in comments section. "Why isn't there 'straight pride day'?" "Why isn't there 'White Pride Month'?" etc. etc. More often than not, it's the straight white males complaining that they aren't getting all the attention as usual. They can't stand seeing any minority group raising themselves up to their level because that threatens their advantaged lives.
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Or could it be that women are actually able to admit they need help and ask for it and men tend to hide their incompetence, refuse to ask for help and therefore remain incompetent? The "men never ask for directions when they are lost" trope came from somewhere.
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Ok, so you've had it bad despite all the assumed competence men have enjoyed since time began. Ever occur to you that you don't realize how many advantages you have had because you have never lived without them?
Individual people can always come up with anecdotal evidence of how they themselves have been wronged or discriminated against. I'm talking large scale statistical evidence that straight white men have been king of the hill for millennia and are finally being confronted with everyone else finding ways to get themselves up that hill and they don't like it one bit. A secure straight white male wouldn't think to have a problem with minorities celebrating their own people to lift themselves up. When everyone is actually on a level playing field, all those special advantages they have that you feel are oppressing you won't be necessary anymore so you should be working to make sure equality happens instead of constantly fighting it and complaining about it.
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No, because they actually don't try before they ask for help. Even I have to ask for help sometimes. In my current highway engineering lab, there is a woman who usually sits directly in front me. Every 2 minutes, literally: "Does my on ramp look okay?" "What do I click?" "Does my preferences look okay?"
During this lab, we are currently running through a book-based tutorial on how to use Microstation and Inroads to create a highway interchange. The book lays out all the preferences and with screenshots of how everything should look. It's like she can't read. I had to move further back so I'm not constantly bother throughout the course of the 3 hour lab.
I'm also in taking an engineering programming class this quarter in visual basic. I've already had 2 women take a picture of my screen to figure out the code and constantly ask for how I figured it out. It's like they can't listen to the instructor or think.
I could go on; Plus, in these labs each woman usually has some sort of orbiter dude who she sits next with that she can constantly ask to get attention. Comical, really.
It has nothing to do with wanting attention. He was referring to the fact that it's okay for minority or fringe groups to celebrate their difference, while if a white or male does so these days, it's slammed by those other groups.
Or for that matter, that goes for virtually any group formerly considered dominant. From housewives to heterosexuals, many people nowadays would take offense if such groups banded together.
Sometimes that's true. Sometimes it's just the easiest way to avoid having to actually work. You know, the thing that males are pretty much predestined to do from birth. No choice in the matter.
This is not fifty years ago. As a father of daughters, I fight to make sure they have more choices. I've also noted that women's worst enemies, are actually other women passing judgement on them.
If you want something to take offense at these days, look no further than companies who do business with China and India. Both China and India are nations where millions of females are not just aborted, but many baby girls are abandoned or killed after birth.
Indian Minister Says 2,000 Girls Are Killed Across the Country Every Day
Rant is right. You obviously have never worked for a company that strived to combine profits and good values with positive outcomes within their sphere of influence. You make it sound like Apple is a public educator or an arm of a local government or ministry. Soooo easy to rant against the big bad corporations, isn't it? Money is here to stay @Adam Warlock. So it Apple. Get used to it. And good for them to find useful things to do with it - eg.: teach kids how to code.
Apple is acting like it's got money to burn. Let's hope that the oft alluded to pipeline starts streaming out some good products.
So many people in this thread are complaining about their current store always being over-crowded, or the next available Genius Bar appointment being so far in the future (because the store doesn't have capacity to meet the current demand).
I think even without any new products, continuing to open new (and expand existing) stores will still be a benefit to customers in crowded markets. Which seems to be the majority of them, listening to folks post in threads like this here on MR...
Keep it up and this thread will get shut down. These next six months are going to be interesting.
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I've consulted for many companies at the executive and C-level, whenever I start to see a social conscience vein in their PR, it is almost always tied to a revenue stream. In most cases, it is intended to create a broad appeal to the customer base.
Then there are those "social justice moles" that find their way somehow, someway into a large company and start to swing their political bat with no care about the long term revenue stream from their actions. They have some cause to promote ignoring the corporate culture and market harmony. You can see that happening over at Tesla way too much in the last few quarters.
Steve Jobs ranted many times inside Apple that doing anything political in your corporate PR will have you loose one third to one half of your customer base whichever way you go.
When Steve was around, the promotion was product centric. You would at most see a hand model or a silhouette in the ads but not details of a human form. Apple has lost that direction and are making the mistake of appealing to multiple cultural demographics having their commercials look like a sub-committee of the United Nations. This dilutes the product image focus.
Get back on product, get back on features, get back on experience. Forget the cultural and political BS. Too bad Angela was not around when Steve was roaming the halls of Infinite Loop. I'm sure the horn locking between those two would have been epic.
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