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Apple CFO Luca Maestri and Jony Ive Reportedly Candidates for Ferrari CEO Position
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It would be kind of weird for Ferrari to be considering an outsider with no car experience I'm aware of and who's known as more of a designer than an executive for CEO. Lead designer or something like that, sure, why not--but CEO? Is there any indication whatsoever that Ive would be a good fit for that kind of role?
The weirder idea is that Ive would even consider taking the job. I've got to imagine that the work a CEO spends the majority of their time doing is not what would interest Ive at all.
The weirder idea is that Ive would even consider taking the job. I've got to imagine that the work a CEO spends the majority of their time doing is not what would interest Ive at all.
Louis Camilleri was coming from the tobacco industry, so why not someone coming from the computer industry ?
Sometimes in the hopes of reducing all the possible weight or for simplicity taken sometimes to levels doubtfully worthy, there are cars without inner door handles:
That sounds not unlike Ferrari though, check out how you open the door to the F40:
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amartinez1660 beat me to it.
The role of Ferrari's CEO is 80% marketing. Brand positioning, pricing, strategic partnerships, etc. Manufacturing is for the SVPs EVPs to do.
Marchionne was not a "car guy" either. People think chief executive means needing to be chief engineer or chief accountant or chief attorney or whatever the industry requires....
I don't get the hate. You need to recharge the mouse maybe every 2-3 months. You can do it over night. MacOS warns you ahead of time (you will still have juice left for multiple hours!) What is the problem to plug your mouse in overnight?
Lol I was going to point this out. Ferrari has had this deal with the devil thing going on with Phillip Morris for a really long time. Even the guy who used to lead their F1 team (Maurizio Arrivabene) was a Phillip Morris marketing executive.
The full name of their team includes “Mission Winnow”, which is some Phillip Morris beyond tobacco reinvention slogan lol, and they can’t even use in most races due to tobacco advertising bans.
You’re just describing Tesla. Those are the most common gripes I hear - no color options (white, black, gray, red, and blue) and the handles are always weird. Thus far Tesla has gone through five ways of opening doors - none look normal.
Very smart design choice, perfectly right for Apple philosophy, horribly underrated by people who don’t understand sh*t about design. So... everybody.
The mouse charges fast enough you can charge it for very little every once in a while. You’re not supposed to use it when it’s charging, it wouldn’t move as well and the cable would slowly wear off or destroy the connector (and if you own an iphone, you know how easily they do).
People are bitching about it, which means they are stupid enough they’d want to do it. And Apple being Apple, they just took away the choice of doing something wrong, like they did with flash player, custom skins and fonts (have you ever tried to read on an android phone with comic sans?) and many other things.
It's insane that it doesn't have any LEDs to show charge status, or Qi charging. I mean, how cool would it have been to put Qi charging in the dang things. They could have put a round plastic spot on the bottom, with an Apple logo in the middle of it. Qi on the keyboard would have been more interesting. Maybe make it chargable through the touch pad? I'm just glad it didn't become narrower and thinner. *yikes*
Tom Selleck beat him to that then. That model of Ferrari was selling like hot cakes. Always in red. But it didn't have the (red), but could...
Actually 'factory wheels', tires not included, are insanely expensive. A fried had a wheel damaged in a chuck hole, and went to the dealer to get it replaced. One rim, no tire, no nothing? $1,800. WHAT! They found a set of rims that really worked well, and paid a bit less than that.If the Mac Pro Wheels cost $700, you can imagine how much the wheels on a Ferrari will cost