Everything that came from the Beats acquisition has been kind of trashy. Including Apple Music.
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Beats Fit Pro Now Available to Order in Kim Kardashian's New Colors
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This might be the most questionable partnership in Apple history. Tim is running Apple right into the gutter.
I wonder how much design input Kim had, did she pick the colours at all? did she pick from like 20 pre approved colours?
Are they available in Dark/Black, the same color as every Kartrashian's soul?
An item being "sold out" doesn't tell us anything though unless we also know how many were made available for sale.
Jesus Christ, the hate in these comments. For people that like skin tone headphones, these look like a great option. A great choice of colours.
Beats Fit Pro are now available to order in new Moon, Dune, and Earth colors designed in collaboration with Kim Kardashian.
Designed? If she did more than point at a Pantone chart for all of 5 seconds I'd be surprised. 😂
LOL.... it NEVER was. If you think Apple has ever had the consumers back or been some kind of example for 'good'... you need to re-evaluate WHY you support brands.
Her collaboration with Ray J resulted in a lot more beats
Honestly I don’t even understand why Apple needs to collaborate with anyone to make products available in certain colors. It’s not like Kim K invented these earth/skin? tones. The earth did. And anyway we all know JLo used these colors first! 😆
The colors aren't the issue. It's not like Apple needed to partner with a 'family' many consider toxic to release colors other than white.
Exactly.
I am frequently puzzled by the posters here who revile Tim Cook's Apple and yet seem to hold Steve Jobs as some sainted figure who only worked for the good of mankind… not a man building a USD100,000,000 yacht… houses and apartments… a multi billionaire.
Myth making at its best.
So she had sex on a tape that was sold, became a multi millionaire and now shades of tan are “Kim kardashian’s colors”?
Say what you want, they look pretty good, they're not for me or anyone here, but they will sell, doubt people buying them will even know about the association with her
Make a sex tape, get your very own Beats endorsement and colors. What a time to be alive.
They develop three colors. She puts on makeup to match them. Photo shoot - tada, colorboration!
You are assuming that no one in MR likes her? Yes, I made the same assumption too. But whatever she does for a living is definitively working.
Aside from the “collab“ aspect of this with Kim, I think the chosen skin tones itself are great colour options. They’d make great case colour options
You do realize Steve Jobs‘ focus was delivering quality and innovation to the PC/electronics spaces that was dominated by “race to the bottom” low end products. Profits were definitely part of Jobs’ strategy but it was not the driver behind his vision for the company. Products came first, prices/cost came afterwards. Tim‘s strategy is profits first, products secondary.
With the acquisition of Beats, Jobs’ vision went out the window. They pulled in trash products and in no way aligned with Jobs’ Apple. A partnership/acquisition of Sennheiser or B&W would have been more in line with Steve Jobs’ vision. Beats is just straight trash. And apparently it takes a Kardashian for people to realize it. Will it make money? Most likely given the zombie followers this family has. But it doesn’t make it NOT trash.
But hey, I’m the dumb one. I should have lowered my standards for humanity and tried to market trash products. I just thought people were smarter. Dumb on me. I’ll take the L on that.
Re: comments about similarity to Zune colours.
Just so it’s clear, the number of Zune colours is not what led to the downfall of that product.
These will likely sell by the buttload, and a lot of people buying won’t care who’s name is attached to them.
Also, “the old Apple” never was. It’s always been a profit-driven company, and its past charitable campaigns were about improving the brand. I agree that this is a missed opportunity to them as far as being charitable is concerned, but one that they likely calculated would be offset by the image they are pushing, in the marketing, as adding diversity. Worst case, it’s a bit of virtue signalling, and they missed the marketing bullseye by not adding charitable donations to it, but it’s still the same Apple as always … profit driven.
Just so it’s clear, the number of Zune colours is not what led to the downfall of that product.
These will likely sell by the buttload, and a lot of people buying won’t care who’s name is attached to them.
Also, “the old Apple” never was. It’s always been a profit-driven company, and its past charitable campaigns were about improving the brand. I agree that this is a missed opportunity to them as far as being charitable is concerned, but one that they likely calculated would be offset by the image they are pushing, in the marketing, as adding diversity. Worst case, it’s a bit of virtue signalling, and they missed the marketing bullseye by not adding charitable donations to it, but it’s still the same Apple as always … profit driven.