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Tim Cook: Chinese Consumer Tastes Fueling Gold Color Options, Apple Watch Developer Interest High
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And you opinion matters why exactly?
You win today's "most random response" award.Enough of that Chinese ******** and fix both iOS and OS X... They're crap these days...
If it does not align perfectly with my specific personal tastes then it is terrible and we have to outrage all the things. Don't you know anything?
And I, for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords.
That might be but the gold colored Apple products are not hideous and gaudy.
Your confusion is easily forgiven; Clarence E. Wilson works with color options, and Clarence F. Wilson handles software.
According to ISO-3324, the standard for gaudiness, and ISO-3427, the hideousness standard, you are correct. Hideousness and gaudiness are completely objective and not subject to individual taste or cultural bias at all.
Could not disagree more. It's easily the most gaudy laptop apple's ever made. The gold iPhone is meh, but the gold MacBook is hideous.
Careful, Apple. General Motors did this, and what did we get? Buicks. The young, affluent people in China love big, overstuffed dull American sedans your grandma drives.
Fortunately, Apple seems to know the difference between taste and good taste.
Fortunately, Apple seems to know the difference between taste and good taste.
What kills me is not so much that Gold anything is of TERRIBLE taste (no wonder Middle-Easters and Chinese are the main customers there...).
What kills me is that the Space Grey and Silver option too are ugly. I'm okay with a silver Mac although it's getting old, but I didn't get an Iphone 6 or a new iPad JUST because of these colors I don't want.
Bring back true black option, like iPhone 5 black monolith or the new black process.
What kills me is that the Space Grey and Silver option too are ugly. I'm okay with a silver Mac although it's getting old, but I didn't get an Iphone 6 or a new iPad JUST because of these colors I don't want.
Bring back true black option, like iPhone 5 black monolith or the new black process.
Diamonds and jewelry: they're just too damn gaudy. I mean, what kind of tasteless moron would like them? Everything should be black. See? Simple!
Personally I don't like the gold colour on anything they've done so far, but options are good. If people like it then good luck to them, just so long as it's an option and not the only colour(/material in the case of the Watch) a product is available in I don't have a problem with it.
Ultimately, if it helps Apple sell lots more products in China, that has got to be good for all Apple users really, it's such a huge market.
Ultimately, if it helps Apple sell lots more products in China, that has got to be good for all Apple users really, it's such a huge market.
From your observations, would it make sense for Apple to somehow provide jade devices? (Obviously jade colored, not real jade, in the same way that the phones are gold colored.) The reason I say that is that in my interactions with Chinese people the TRULY prized jewelry is jade --- gold is for commoners and peasants.
You see the same thing if you visit the National Taiwan Museum --- all the really impressive stuff is carved jade, not metal worked gold.
But that may be a very elite viewpoint, and of course Apple has to track the mass viewpoint, not the super-elite viewpoint. Which is why I'm interested in who someone interacting with the people there on the street sees them thinking.
The Apple Watch suggests otherwise.
I note that this is yet another opportunity gone when Tim Cook could have told us that Apple Watch sales have been stellar. It's another nail in the coffin for this overpriced, ugly, geeky, pointless monstrosity.
I predict a gold-tone Sport coming in AW2, similar to the matte gold on iPhone/ iPad/ Macbook. Hey does that qualify me for a job at BGR?
Just go to an Apple Store and run a few speed tests on each color. Let us know what you find. Make sure that they're actually spec'd the same and the color is the only difference. I know my Apple Store has one of each color lined up at one table... not sure if they're spec'd identically.
