wonder anybody know their names in the photo? or at least the girl to the right of Jony
Look, I'm not saying she's ugly, but please take your fermented apple goggles off. She does not really warrant your gawking, IMO.
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Apple's Entire Design Team Travels to London for Award Acceptance
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Look, I'm not saying she's ugly, but please take your fermented apple goggles off. She does not really warrant your gawking, IMO.
I wonder if this would have happened if Steve were still alive. My guess is no way would the whole team have been flown to London.
I wonder if he had to tell them all what the dress code was or if their intuitive sense of design led them all to dress that way.
No one could doubt that they deserve it.
In either news, Johnny was spotted at London Fashion Week: http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/andy-murray-victoria-pendleton-and-jonnie-peacock-all-want-a-piece-of-the-burberry-action-8151963.html?action=gallery&ino=1
In either news, Johnny was spotted at London Fashion Week: http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/andy-murray-victoria-pendleton-and-jonnie-peacock-all-want-a-piece-of-the-burberry-action-8151963.html?action=gallery&ino=1
I've been in the industry long enough to know that it doesn't seem like a) enough people, or b) the full mix of people one would expect. Also the wording can be assumed this. Ives and his team. His team are his managers; who then have THEIR teams.
I'm not saying that it isn't everyone, but my gut tells me it isn't.
Let's see, 16 people, use 2 planes and lose half the team, or 4 planes, or maybe 8. 16 planes would be overkill - oops, bad term, underkill. Maybe 4 planes would be enough diversity. Maybe one private jet for Jony and a few non-essential, oops again, less essential designers and the rest go on 3 separate commercial flights.
Quite a logistical problem.
Have you heard this one? 15 white guys and two token women walk into a secret design studio
****. As soon as I saw this article I knew somebody would try turning it into a gender war.
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I bet that is no coincidence... I'm pretty sure Sir Jony has designed their suits, choosen the fabric, the buttons, the shirts so they all look like a team, a design team, or better said, Apple's design team
Can you imagine on the contrary a bunch of geeks with in ill-fitting pants and knitted pullovers??
"For the stitching inside the coats, we had to invent entirely new thread that would meet the strict criteria we established for flexibility and strength, at the exact thicknesses we needed. Fibers from five different plants and animals are spun together with our brand new textile process. The thread actually matches the precise hue of the rest of the fabric, despite being an entirely different material."
At the highest levels, men dominate everything. This is surprising?
In case you hadn't noticed, testosterone creates confidence and aggression, precisely the two things you need to quickly climb the ladder in your career of choice. I'm sure there's many fine female designers out there, but how many of them are willing to cut the throat of the designer next to them for the opportunity to rise in the ranks? Face it, it's rare that a woman puts her career ahead of her workplace friendships or her family at home. It's because she doesn't have so much of a natural but powerful drug in her system amping her up and making her take credit for other people's work, or strongly defending themselves when somebody does it to them. Obviously women can and do reach the highest levels of the business world if they are determined to, so let's not pretend men are somehow keeping women out. The question you should be asking yourself is, why aren't more women doing what's necessary?
Plus, we're talking about a tech company. I'll be the first to say it's unfortunate more girls aren't encouraged to get into science and technology, but they simply aren't. Blame whoever you like, but not the companies that are hiring. When you start with far fewer young women applicants, you have far fewer older women who rise to high levels. Unless you're saying Apple and other businesses should hire less qualified individuals in order to meet some sort of quota?
Look, my mother is a brilliant woman with a sharp scientific mind, and in the 60s she went to college in a scientific field against a lot of resistance from her parents, her high school teachers, and society. She overcame that and worked as a medical researcher in several prestigious institutions. She left work to start a family.
She admits, she underachieved in her career. She should have been running her own lab, and she very easily could have if she tried for it. But she didn't want that for her life, and she doesn't regret her choices. She wanted to be a stay at home mom and take care of her kids. As one of her kids, I'm rather grateful for that. But she did less than she could have, in her career, because she didn't have the aggression and single-minded focus on her career that would have gotten her to dominate. She had the talent, she just prioritized different things.
Now, she grew up in the 50s and 60s. So did a lot of other women who recently started making it to the top of various careers. They are doing so in reduced numbers compared to men because fewer of them have the drive, and fewer of them were encouraged decades ago to get into those fields. I think we can agree that things were quite different back then. Let's see what happens over the next 60-70 years as girls are brought up differently, before we start making wild accusations of sexist discrimination in the workplace.
Why are we pretending that career achievement is even something to be strived for above all else, anyway? How many men are there that regret, on their deathbeds, that they didn't spend more time with their families, or with outside interests and hobbies? Quite a few. Men are aggressive in the workplace because it gets them power and wealth that attracts women, so they can start a family and spread their genes around, not because they enjoy working so much. Work is WORK. Women (and men, but it's rarer) who can take it easy and not work so hard have much happier lives.
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Hyperbolic much?
I love my Apple products, and the design is great, but I have to say that "the best design of the last 50 years category" could only have been created by someone less than 40...
I love my Apple products, and the design is great, but I have to say that "the best design of the last 50 years category" could only have been created by someone less than 40...
Gangnam Style! 
All of them in the same airplane? Quite some risk taking from a business continuity point of view...
I was wondering the same thing.
The long-haired guy looks a bit like Sir Richard Branson;
But on a serious note, it's nice to see more than one person-Sir Jonathan Ive-being in the spotlight and the team as a whole getting well deserved recognition!