Apple Overhauls Leadership Page With Memoji Avatars for Execs Ahead of World Emoji Day

[AdonisSMU]

This is the **** they waste their time on instead of shoring up the holes in their software. Smh

They can do more than one thing at a time. How do you know what Apple is doing? How You people don’t think you are being at all presumptuous thinking Apple isn’t trying to improve their software because they release some memoji ironically which were made with their own software and represent an improvement to the software in and of themselves.
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I would have said Phil Schiller, but maybe that's just me?

It looks just like him no lips and all. Maybe the hair should be grayer and the shape of the hair a bit more refined.

 

[sevarre]

I know this is supposed to be fun, but I honestly think companies aren't funny. Facebook isn't funny when they try, Google isn't either. They can't be. To be funny, you have to have some sense of self-mockery, some reflection that recognizes weaknesses unapologetically and uses them to form some sort of a pun. And in my opinion that is literally the opposite of what companies are meant to do. Companies are like strongholds that try to suggest an image of gapless strength to investors. There are no levels of irony in this. This isn't mocking emojis in some ironic sense (which actually might have been funny), this is 100% serious. This says "We love emojis, let's emoji together!", nothing more. And no, that is not funny. It's, as others pointed out, obnoxious, nothing else.

This is so well put and exactly how I feel about it.

It's like when companies try and make jokes on Twitter or when they try and engage people on Twitter and it just falls flat. They are not authentic agents and when we sometimes sense this, it's like we get a social version of the uncanny valley. By detecting that some ulterior motive (or worse) is present, we are confronted with the fact that we were never really engaged in a real dialogue/even handed interaction. It's like you're being targeted and it's eerie.

"AHAHA, WE'RE FRIENDS, RIGHT?! WATCH THIS AD, BUY THAT THING!"

I wonder how many more people would get behind this kind of stuff if Tim Cook would just say, "Oh god, these things are stupid. Haha, oh well".

 

[Williesleg]

In around 10 years from now scholars will point out this specific act in time as part of the continued downfall and ultimate failure of Apple, Inc.

 

[Bacillus]

This is so well put and exactly how I feel about it.

It's like when companies try and make jokes on Twitter or when they try and engage people on Twitter and it just falls flat. They are not authentic agents and when we sometimes sense this, it's like we get a social version of the uncanny valley. By detecting that some ulterior motive (or worse) is present, we are confronted with the fact that we were never really engaged in a real dialogue/even handed interaction. It's like you're being targeted and it's eerie.

"AHAHA, WE'RE FRIENDS, RIGHT?! WATCH THIS AD, BUY THAT THING!"

I wonder how many more people would get behind this kind of stuff if Tim Cook would just say, "Oh god, these things are stupid. Haha, oh well".

It's even worse.
To me, this is a complete annihilation of Tim's profile.
Sexually nullified as a memoji, his successfully crafted image as a proud and convinced homosexual - if not his main discriminator - now plastified itself into sudden memoji-dom.
To me, that image has gone wonky in a single moment.
And with it, the whole ground under the glorified Apple Diversity Campaign also fell apart.
Their fascination is to become disappointingly similar.
I know this may be an unwanted interpretation - but exactly that peril should have been anticipated by the executive PR staff.
I am embarrassed by this misheap: our inspiration by these role models who convinced us to buy, buy and buy again (for our merits, not theirs...) - whatever fluff they created, complete collapsed today.
And what's left ?
The Return of the Amorphous Grey TC Duck and its little nonsensical herd of featherless chickens...
I feel betrayed by the absolute hollowness in those plastic eyes.
He might as well announce another "adopted" Samsung S-model today.
I really couldn't care less (whether it contains a notch or not...)
I feel so confused...

 

[I7guy]

It's even worse.
To me, this is a complete annihilation of Tim's profile.
Sexually nullified as a memoji, his successfully crafted image as a proud and convinced homosexual - if not his main discriminator - now plastified itself into sudden memoji-dom.
To me, that image has gone wonky in a single moment.
And with it, the whole ground under the glorified Apple Diversity Campaign also fell apart.
Their fascination is to become disappointingly similar.
I know this may be an unwanted interpretation - but exactly that peril should have been anticipated by the executive PR staff.
I am embarrassed by this misheap: our inspiration by these role models who convinced us to buy, buy and buy again

Why are you embarrassed? I want to buy more Apple stock. Kudos to TC for putting himself out there.

But just to be clear TC didn’t inspire me to buy more product. The products inspired me, the support inspired me, apple’s stance on certain issues that I agree on inspired me, the notech inspired me...