I don't think so, but they've had an Arab American as the CEO for the longest time, which is even a smaller minority in this country.
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New Retail Chief Angela Ahrendts Appears on Apple's Leadership Page
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I don't think so, but they've had an Arab American as the CEO for the longest time, which is even a smaller minority in this country.
I really hope she rocks it. Woman/Man/Whatever, it's about how they do business. And this woman knows what she's doing.
I really hope this doesn't sound terrible, but it's so awesome to see a woman use her skills instead of their looks to get somewhere. This woman blew it out of the water at Burberry
I really hope this doesn't sound terrible, but it's so awesome to see a woman use her skills instead of their looks to get somewhere. This woman blew it out of the water at Burberry
WHY isn't Jonny Ive an Executive VP? Surely he's earned it!
What are you talking about.
http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/
Must be something wrong with me.
I want to own something, I save my money, I just want to go and get it, spend as little time in the store as possible, come back home and start to use it.
I don't want, need, desire any "Experience"
Honestly a warehouse that has metal racks and the item I want is in a plain brown box is all I want.
If the item inside is what I want and is priced well (not had it's price increased to pay for a fancy chain of stores) I am more than happy.
Must be something wrong with me
Having her are the top pleases me even more so, as it makes Apple looks like it's going down the line of a Fashion Brand, and further away from what I want a computer to be, so it's probably going to make it even easier not to take Apple as a serious best hardware maker at time goes on.
Making this for fashion and style and branding.
I want to own something, I save my money, I just want to go and get it, spend as little time in the store as possible, come back home and start to use it.
I don't want, need, desire any "Experience"
Honestly a warehouse that has metal racks and the item I want is in a plain brown box is all I want.
If the item inside is what I want and is priced well (not had it's price increased to pay for a fancy chain of stores) I am more than happy.
Must be something wrong with me
Having her are the top pleases me even more so, as it makes Apple looks like it's going down the line of a Fashion Brand, and further away from what I want a computer to be, so it's probably going to make it even easier not to take Apple as a serious best hardware maker at time goes on.
Making this for fashion and style and branding.
Who would have thought that a female (other than Seven of Nine) could trigger such a widespread Nerdgasm
Must be something wrong with me.
I want to own something, I save my money, I just want to go and get it, spend as little time in the store as possible, come back home and start to use it.
I don't want, need, desire any "Experience"
Honestly a warehouse that has metal racks and the item I want is in a plain brown box is all I want.
If the item inside is what I want and is priced well (not had it's price increased to pay for a fancy chain of stores) I am more than happy.
Must be something wrong with me
Having her are the top pleases me even more so, as it makes Apple look like it's going down the line of a Fashion Brand, and further away from what I want a computer to be.
No, nothing wrong, I'm the same. But there are lots of people who do want an experience. I avoid the Mall like the plague and would much rather buy my Apple products online than in the store.
But the Apple stores have proved to be phenomenally successful and just as Apple should be paying attention to the small details (like Steve obsessing about how the MBA lid felt when you pushed it closed) in their products, they should pay attention to the small things in the store. I hope she is successful.
It can be subjective discussion as visitors have different expectations. When it comes to my local Apple store however, I've always found it to be a cold experience. It pains me to say this as I'm sure many customers leave happy, but I often find the staff patronising (especially if you don't have the same level of product knowledge as them) and the environment not very welcoming.
Again, the latter will change from store to store. The one nearest to me has bare steel walls, a glass stair case that's very easy to trip up on and of course no cash wrap. I'm guessing the mobile card payment/cash system is designed to speed up transactions, but I've just never felt comfortable with it. Maybe it's just me of course
You're not the only one. Most of the Apple Stores I've visited are too busy for me to even talk to staff (not that I was seeking them out), but the decor does run towards the chilly side. This was Steve's aesthetic. The Apple retail environment is growing a bit long in the tooth anyway, and is ready for an overhaul. I presume that will be on Ahrendts' agenda.
...or picking up online orders. The first person that looked like a salesperson and not a greeter -- missed the greeter completely -- looked at my paperwork then passed me off to another person that scanned my paperwork, then we stood around for 5 or so minutes while we waited for *someone else* to bring my stuff out from the back. I don't really like shopping at Apple stores. Too many workers that all look alike, but that clearly only know how to do one thing. Albuquerque store.
I hope she does a bad job so the number of people in the stores drops off. It's always so crowded.
The interesting thing is, out of everyone here, Jony Ive is the most important (even Jobs said it himself), in fact, if you were to do this in order of importance, Jony should be first and Cook should be last.
Here is my big worry and it has nothing to do with her gender. I teach in a business school and one area I teach is in decision making.
One way that people make decisions is through intuition. Intuition is gained by making many, many decisions and extracting a mental model of the area where you are making the decisions. Unfortunately, people don't have conscious access to this model, they just know if something feels right in their gut.
When you bring someone from another field, their gut has been developed in a different set of variables. So, what seems right in their gut can be actually totally wrong.
John Scully came from Pepsi and his gut told him to give people lots of choices, because that's what works with soda. It was a fiasco at Apple and as soon as Steve came back he cut down the number of SKUs to a few and Apple flourished.
I hope that Angela's gut will work for her. It's not impossible to succeed in a different industry, but often difficult. Perhaps "Retail" is more important than the industry itself.
One way that people make decisions is through intuition. Intuition is gained by making many, many decisions and extracting a mental model of the area where you are making the decisions. Unfortunately, people don't have conscious access to this model, they just know if something feels right in their gut.
When you bring someone from another field, their gut has been developed in a different set of variables. So, what seems right in their gut can be actually totally wrong.
John Scully came from Pepsi and his gut told him to give people lots of choices, because that's what works with soda. It was a fiasco at Apple and as soon as Steve came back he cut down the number of SKUs to a few and Apple flourished.
I hope that Angela's gut will work for her. It's not impossible to succeed in a different industry, but often difficult. Perhaps "Retail" is more important than the industry itself.
Yeah I'm happy she's on board. She seems like a great fit and Burberry has such nice clothing and accessories. That fashion show shot on the iPhone was cool too.
Don't be so hard on yourself, you're doing something many other people do on a regular basis, which is conflating your wants and desires with what's actually good for Apple.
This sort of conflation happens all the time and with, well, most everyone. I see it in executives as much as in neckbeards.
To dive a bit deeper, one would hope that Tim and company understand what sort of customers they need to attract and convert to Apple. Unfortunately, at some point, existing customers - since they are already in the camp - aren't as important, so what we want isn't going to be factored in with as much weight as new customers.
To be clear, I'm not happy with that and I have more than a few complaints about Apple retail, but I recognize that Apple will do what's best for Apple and that singular, N=1 sample size complaints from existing customers aren't going to have the same importance as we would like.
Also, what you described as your desired buying experience... is an experience. You said you didn't want one, then you described the one you wanted... Just sayin'.
Bottom line, don't confuse what Apple needs to do and what you want. They're not necessarily going to be the same.
Must be something wrong with me.
I want to own something, I save my money, I just want to go and get it, spend as little time in the store as possible, come back home and start to use it.
I don't want, need, desire any "Experience"
Honestly a warehouse that has metal racks and the item I want is in a plain brown box is all I want.
If the item inside is what I want and is priced well (not had it's price increased to pay for a fancy chain of stores) I am more than happy.
Must be something wrong with me
Having her are the top pleases me even more so, as it makes Apple looks like it's going down the line of a Fashion Brand, and further away from what I want a computer to be, so it's probably going to make it even easier not to take Apple as a serious best hardware maker at time goes on.
Making this for fashion and style and branding.
If you are already an Apple customer, the stores really aren't for you. They are for presenting Apple's products to people who would not ordinarily see them. The fact that they are nearly always packed full of people also reinforces Apple's product image. Those big windows serve to display the customers as much as the products, if not more so. Before you dismiss the stores as being mainly about fashion or style, consider that Apple has succeeded in retail where many others have tried and failed. It's impossible to separate Apple's resurgence from the truly astonishing success of the Apple stores.
SVP ≠ EVP. So, what are YOU talking about?
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executive vp ≠ senior vp...!
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Yeah, that makes perfect sense, if you're Glenn Beck.
He doesn't have the desire, background or ambition to be an EVP. SVP is his self-chosen peak. He's done damn well for his position; in just about any other company on the globe he's be buried many levels below where he is now.
He should have no complaints whatsoever.
This seems like a gross oversimplification on several fronts. Without trying to count them out, I'd guess that Apple has just as many product models in their lineup today as they did when Sculley left in 1993. Jobs did more than simply reduce the product line when he returned (which, we should remember, was four years after Sculley's departure). For one, he killed off products that weren't making money and refocused the company's limited resources on core products. The real turning point was the iMac, in 1998. When resources were not so limited, he branched the company out into more and more product lines. That famous product matrix lasted maybe three years, tops. Nobody ever announced that the matrix was dead; it just vanished when it wasn't of use any longer.
None of Apple's executives are tagged as EVP. Heck. Jeff Williams is listed as SVP and not COO (like Cook was). At least they removed "industrial" from Ive's job title. He's been listed as SVP Design in product videos for years.
If you bothered to read my entire post I specifically stated that he deserved it after all these years. It was Jobs with Ive that got Apple back on track.
In some ways Cook repurposed it for Apple's org structure. Now you basically have four core leaders instead of some of the divisional leadership that was under Jobs (like Rubinstein and then Fadell leading the iPod division, iOS and OS X/Mac with separate leaders, ect.). It's hard to have fiefdoms now because every leader pretty much has involvement with every product/service in some way.
My problem is this.
I want a pair of branded jeans say. I will hopefully find a warehouse store a discount store, selling what I want, piled high, at a great price and I will love this. I got a good deal. Perhaps half price.
I go to a Levi's store. All the pants are there on nice shelves, displayed nice, some chrome, perhaps little spot lights. The jeans are full retail price, let's say $100 and I got mine for $50
I just look and smile and think what idiots buy them from here at twice what I paid just cos the store looks fancy.
I know it's not for me. I think too logically and rationally.
Some fancy shelving, lights and music does not make the product any better.
They all come from the same factory.
This is of course all about style and marketing and selling a "Lifestyle" and not just a box with computer chips inside it.
Sorry, but I just can't be fooled this way.
The ONLY experience I want is a fault free product, that I want at the lowest price I can get it for. Nothing else matters.
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And PLEASE PLEASE
Can someone photoshop these photos and swap the hairstyles between them
I want a pair of branded jeans say. I will hopefully find a warehouse store a discount store, selling what I want, piled high, at a great price and I will love this. I got a good deal. Perhaps half price.
I go to a Levi's store. All the pants are there on nice shelves, displayed nice, some chrome, perhaps little spot lights. The jeans are full retail price, let's say $100 and I got mine for $50
I just look and smile and think what idiots buy them from here at twice what I paid just cos the store looks fancy.
I know it's not for me. I think too logically and rationally.
Some fancy shelving, lights and music does not make the product any better.
They all come from the same factory.
This is of course all about style and marketing and selling a "Lifestyle" and not just a box with computer chips inside it.
Sorry, but I just can't be fooled this way.
The ONLY experience I want is a fault free product, that I want at the lowest price I can get it for. Nothing else matters.
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And PLEASE PLEASE
Can someone photoshop these photos and swap the hairstyles between them