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Tim Cook: Chinese Consumer Tastes Fueling Gold Color Options, Apple Watch Developer Interest High
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I hope he's not talking about the tastes of the workers who make those iDevices, seeing as they need to work a loooong time to buy one of them.
Colour options are fine. Gold is fine (just not my taste).
The part that makes me sad is the broader implication that apple has shifted away from being a taste-maker and is mostly about focus groups and market research these days. It's fine and dandy for bottom line fiscal success, but I miss sensing the "vision" behind apple products.
The part that makes me sad is the broader implication that apple has shifted away from being a taste-maker and is mostly about focus groups and market research these days. It's fine and dandy for bottom line fiscal success, but I miss sensing the "vision" behind apple products.
There is nothing "premium" about a Gold Apple Watch. Apple is not setting any new standards in luxury among the uber rich with their $10,000+ "timepieces". I would imagine that most 1%ers look at the Apple Watch like they would look at a gold plated Casio or Timex, as a joke, while they walk up to their watch display cases and pick from dozens of high quality timepieces from Omega or Rolex, or more likely, those designed by luxury Swiss watchmakers you never heard of.
The Gold Apple watch are for douchey insecure hipsters that must be socially judged by others based on purchasing overt status symbols bought on credit they can't actually afford. Anyone with real money and taste is laughing at Apple and at most might buy any Apple watch so they can work out in a gym or go for a swim and don't want to ruin their real luxury watches.
The Gold Apple watch are for douchey insecure hipsters that must be socially judged by others based on purchasing overt status symbols bought on credit they can't actually afford. Anyone with real money and taste is laughing at Apple and at most might buy any Apple watch so they can work out in a gym or go for a swim and don't want to ruin their real luxury watches.
I do like the look of the gold iPhone. In fact, I had convinced myself that I'd buy a gold iPhone 6 Plus last year. When I got to the store, though, I just couldn't lose the all black (when the screen is off) front.
You do realize that comes from a Korean spoof, not an actual documentary?
Treating it seriously is like assuming Spinal Tap or Fear of a Black Hat are serious journalistic portrayals of the music business.
Wait. What is this nonsense about you not liking something and then not forcing your subjective view of onto others? Am I still on MacRumors?
Haha, I am glad that I'm not the only person who's debated the importance of how the phone looks when the screen is off.
Yes, how much of an insecure person must one be to not acknowledge that people let alone other cultures have different tastes?
Nobody forces anybody at gunpoint to buy anything gold.
some of the answers here are too funny
lack of taste is just the same as a lack of competence to comprehend another context/culture/state of mind
I love driving black cars here in the north, but when I go to Italy or Spain, I love those bright coloured cars. Because they fit the context, the bright sun, the people...If I see them here in the North of Europe I used to find them 'tasteless'.
Don't judge from your own point of view, or your own stereotypes, that's easy. And watch out you'll become a stereotype yourself very quickly. American matrix dude with everything in black...
lack of taste is just the same as a lack of competence to comprehend another context/culture/state of mind
I love driving black cars here in the north, but when I go to Italy or Spain, I love those bright coloured cars. Because they fit the context, the bright sun, the people...If I see them here in the North of Europe I used to find them 'tasteless'.
Don't judge from your own point of view, or your own stereotypes, that's easy. And watch out you'll become a stereotype yourself very quickly. American matrix dude with everything in black...