In the video, the read hair pundit states, basically, that:
- Apple is leaving China
- Moving manufacturing to the USA (Texas) with "100% automation"
- This will result in significant restructuring of how Apple operates
I wonder if anyone told Tim Cook he is moving all of Apple manufacturing to Texas?
Too funny.
I can only hope the red headed analyst did not realize how badly she misspoke! I am thinking she meant to say the Mac Pro line NOT every line.
And nobody corrected her!! Seeing her all smiley and happy as she sipped from her styrofoam cup on TV after the faux pas was uttered was enough to make me want to feel embarrassed for her.
In the video, the read hair pundit states, basically, that:
- Apple is leaving China
- Moving manufacturing to the USA (Texas) with "100% automation"
- This will result in significant restructuring of how Apple operates
I wonder if anyone told Tim Cook he is moving all of Apple manufacturing to Texas?
Too funny.
What would a SVP of Retail from the fashion industry have to do with moving manufacturing to the U.S., automation or product quality control?
Nothing!
I can't believe these "journalists" just let that fly out there without any follow up questions.
What does it matter that she’s a woman? I’d fire her the same as Browlett if she can’t get the job done, and rightly so. I’d keep her on, the same as Browlett, if she can.
Burberry is sadly known for being the clothing provider for chavs - the uneducated (and proud of it) noisy, in your face, downmarket but high spending, brand-obsessed, Samsung-loving, irritating, low life much despised in the UK. Sure, Burberry sell to a restricted range of unprofitable top-end upmarket people too, but I hope no check patterns enter the Apple design system...
I'm not saying she's a bad hire, and her stewardship was in place at the time markets moved towards her products and she managed that effectively - but again, she seems to excite Tim Cook in the same way as John Browett did: profit centric. I would argue that Apple doesn't need more profit, it needs more soul; everything recently seems to be slightly behind where it could be just to maximise the revenues. Samsung may be the dirtiest, nastiest copyists out there, but I can understand why their products appeal to some people (I know, I have to go and wash my mouth out with soap now!) Apple just hasn't launched anything really exciting for ages. iOS7 is worrying, while the iP5S is basically an iP5 with a fingerprint sensor. The original iPhone was loaded with new, wonderful features. That magic has been lost it seems, and now they are chasing chavs? I hope not!
Tim is smart. He knows his strengths and weaknesses. He's hiring these fashion specialists to gain back a little bit of Steve's vision of what will appeal to the people.
Burberry is a pleasure to shop at. The sales people really know there line much better than other clothing retailers I have seen. The clothing is very beautiful to look at and remarkable to the touch.
Well, if you have to ask I guess you might never get it.
Perhaps it'll help you if I say they need more people who think like Steve Jobs thought, and fewer who think how Tim Cook thinks if they are to return to launching products that touch people's souls.
Who's the visionary at Apple these days? A series of excellent specialists need a visionary to guide them or they'll have the most organised expedition that never left base. At the moment Phil Schiller seems to be driving product specs, launching each new iPhone with just a single headline grabbing feature (classical marketing theory of maximising profits) while Tim Cook is driving the supply chain very well because he looks at the details, but seems not to see the big picture; Jony Ive is great at making things look pretty but isn't always the most practical if iOS7 is a guide, while the customer service is not as it used to be due to moving away from people to a computer operated call forwarding system which drives me potty as I remember when I could get through to a real person without having to wait for 3 to 4 minutes of computer messages and choices first.
It's all become very focussed on profits when Apple already are the world's most profitable company; is that all the Apple ethos has become? Where is the zen thinking? Where is the combination of art with science? Where is the science fiction coming to life in your hand?
Well, if you have to ask I guess you might never get it.
Perhaps it'll help you if I say they need more people who think like Steve Jobs thought, and fewer who think how Tim Cook thinks if they are to return to launching products that touch people's souls.
Who's the visionary at Apple these days? A series of excellent specialists need a visionary to guide them or they'll have the most organised expedition that never left base. At the moment Phil Schiller seems to be driving product specs, launching each new iPhone with just a single headline grabbing feature (classical marketing theory of maximising profits) while Tim Cook is driving the supply chain very well because he looks at the details, but seems not to see the big picture; Jony Ive is great at making things look pretty but isn't always the most practical if iOS7 is a guide, while the customer service is not as it used to be due to moving away from people to a computer operated call forwarding system which drives me potty as I remember when I could get through to a real person without having to wait for 3 to 4 minutes of computer messages and choices first.
It's all become very focussed on profits when Apple already are the world's most profitable company; is that all the Apple ethos has become? Where is the zen thinking? Where is the combination of art with science? Where is the science fiction coming to life in your hand?
Hot damn. Fingerprint tech. There isn't a need for a single visionary at Apple. The leadership team can collectively drive that vision.
People, if you want to know why she was hired for this position, watch this 13 minute TEDx talk. THEN come back here and discuss.
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I agree. It was a good presentation. It was as if she was ”auditioning" for Apple.
I was thinking the same thing at a couple points in the talk. I believe offers like this and moves like this often take place over months-long periods; we as the general public peons just don't know about it until the end. So with that in mind, it's quite possible that she had already been made the offer back in April, but hadn't decided, or didn't want to publicly announce her decision to move to Apple.
She is clearly uncomfortable speaking in this environment, you can hear it in her voice. She's out of her element. But if the talk is any indication of the "real" her, she gets the connection between people, their emotions, style, energy, etc. IMHO, this is a hire Steve Jobs would have made, or at least the kind of holistic personality that he would want in this position.
Burberry is sadly known for being the clothing provider for chavs - the uneducated (and proud of it) noisy, in your face, downmarket but high spending, brand-obsessed, Samsung-loving, irritating, low life much despised in the UK. Sure, Burberry sell to a restricted range of unprofitable top-end upmarket people too, but I hope no check patterns enter the Apple design system...
I'm not saying she's a bad hire, and her stewardship was in place at the time markets moved towards her products and she managed that effectively - but again, she seems to excite Tim Cook in the same way as John Browett did: profit centric. I would argue that Apple doesn't need more profit, it needs more soul; everything recently seems to be slightly behind where it could be just to maximise the revenues. Samsung may be the dirtiest, nastiest copyists out there, but I can understand why their products appeal to some people (I know, I have to go and wash my mouth out with soap now!) Apple just hasn't launched anything really exciting for ages. iOS7 is worrying, while the iP5S is basically an iP5 with a fingerprint sensor. The original iPhone was loaded with new, wonderful features. That magic has been lost it seems, and now they are chasing chavs? I hope not!
Burberry never chased "chavs". It's the fashion of choice for the upper middle classes, in particularly the country elite. Then some "chavs" - rather a criminal or entrepreneurial class in the cities - copied them. Saying it is for chavs is like saying that BMW is for rappers. It's some but not much of the truth.
And it's not for the poor. They are wearing track suits if they can be bothered leaving their pyjamas.
I researched Brovett's background when he was appointed and checked the website of his former company where great emphasis was made on measuring and improving customers satisfaction and care. He seemed an ideal fit for Apple's philosophy.
Then, when he took over at Apple stores, forgot about customer satisfaction and he started to try cost cutting and upset staff from top to bottom at the expense of customer care - strange that he so misunderstood his mission.
Not from what I saw. Dixons was known for having messy stores, dirty stores, and carried cheap, often junky items. I was in those stores several times when I went to London over the last few years. I can attest that they were nothing like Apple's stores, and the experience wasn't exactly first class. I don't know what you read, but the business commenting on him at the time was that they were confused as to why Apple thought him to be a good fit.
Perhaps your error is that you looked up some guy named Brovett, instead of Browett.
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I can only hope the red headed analyst did not realize how badly she misspoke! I am thinking she meant to say the Mac Pro line NOT every line.
And nobody corrected her!! Seeing her all smiley and happy as she sipped from her styrofoam cup on TV after the faux pas was uttered was enough to make me want to feel embarrassed for her.
What would a SVP of Retail from the fashion industry have to do with moving manufacturing to the U.S., automation or product quality control?
Nothing!
I can't believe these "journalists" just let that fly out there without any follow up questions.
At last, a woman in the senior management
Good to have female in its management team.
Agreed.
What does it matter that she’s a woman? I’d fire her the same as Browlett if she can’t get the job done, and rightly so. I’d keep her on, the same as Browlett, if she can.
Burberry is sadly known for being the clothing provider for chavs - the uneducated (and proud of it) noisy, in your face, downmarket but high spending, brand-obsessed, Samsung-loving, irritating, low life much despised in the UK. Sure, Burberry sell to a restricted range of unprofitable top-end upmarket people too, but I hope no check patterns enter the Apple design system...
I'm not saying she's a bad hire, and her stewardship was in place at the time markets moved towards her products and she managed that effectively - but again, she seems to excite Tim Cook in the same way as John Browett did: profit centric. I would argue that Apple doesn't need more profit, it needs more soul; everything recently seems to be slightly behind where it could be just to maximise the revenues. Samsung may be the dirtiest, nastiest copyists out there, but I can understand why their products appeal to some people (I know, I have to go and wash my mouth out with soap now!) Apple just hasn't launched anything really exciting for ages. iOS7 is worrying, while the iP5S is basically an iP5 with a fingerprint sensor. The original iPhone was loaded with new, wonderful features. That magic has been lost it seems, and now they are chasing chavs? I hope not!
I would argue that Apple doesn't need more profit, it needs more soul.
Err.... what TF does that mean?
Tim is smart. He knows his strengths and weaknesses. He's hiring these fashion specialists to gain back a little bit of Steve's vision of what will appeal to the people.
Burberry is a pleasure to shop at. The sales people really know there line much better than other clothing retailers I have seen. The clothing is very beautiful to look at and remarkable to the touch.
Err.... what TF does that mean?
Well, if you have to ask I guess you might never get it.
Perhaps it'll help you if I say they need more people who think like Steve Jobs thought, and fewer who think how Tim Cook thinks if they are to return to launching products that touch people's souls.
Who's the visionary at Apple these days? A series of excellent specialists need a visionary to guide them or they'll have the most organised expedition that never left base. At the moment Phil Schiller seems to be driving product specs, launching each new iPhone with just a single headline grabbing feature (classical marketing theory of maximising profits) while Tim Cook is driving the supply chain very well because he looks at the details, but seems not to see the big picture; Jony Ive is great at making things look pretty but isn't always the most practical if iOS7 is a guide, while the customer service is not as it used to be due to moving away from people to a computer operated call forwarding system which drives me potty as I remember when I could get through to a real person without having to wait for 3 to 4 minutes of computer messages and choices first.
It's all become very focussed on profits when Apple already are the world's most profitable company; is that all the Apple ethos has become? Where is the zen thinking? Where is the combination of art with science? Where is the science fiction coming to life in your hand?
He wasnt given enough time and he made changes too soon.
Hot damn. Fingerprint tech. There isn't a need for a single visionary at Apple. The leadership team can collectively drive that vision.
Hot damn. Fingerprint tech. There isn't a need for a single visionary at Apple. The leadership team can collectively drive that vision.
You know the definition of a camel being a horse that was designed by a committee, don't you?
Do you really think jobs designed everything and took no input?
This TEDx talk will give an idea of what to expect. Is that an iPad mini I see? There's a lot of Tim Cook's presentation style here, too, I think.
http://youtu.be/mZNlN31hS78
Thanks for the link...
Very impressive!
Yes, thank you Sidrc. Impressive indeed.
People, if you want to know why she was hired for this position, watch this 13 minute TEDx talk. THEN come back here and discuss.
I agree. It was a good presentation. It was as if she was ”auditioning" for Apple.
I was thinking the same thing at a couple points in the talk. I believe offers like this and moves like this often take place over months-long periods; we as the general public peons just don't know about it until the end. So with that in mind, it's quite possible that she had already been made the offer back in April, but hadn't decided, or didn't want to publicly announce her decision to move to Apple.
She is clearly uncomfortable speaking in this environment, you can hear it in her voice. She's out of her element. But if the talk is any indication of the "real" her, she gets the connection between people, their emotions, style, energy, etc. IMHO, this is a hire Steve Jobs would have made, or at least the kind of holistic personality that he would want in this position.
I'm optimistic.
Burberry never chased "chavs". It's the fashion of choice for the upper middle classes, in particularly the country elite. Then some "chavs" - rather a criminal or entrepreneurial class in the cities - copied them. Saying it is for chavs is like saying that BMW is for rappers. It's some but not much of the truth.
And it's not for the poor. They are wearing track suits if they can be bothered leaving their pyjamas.
First female SVP! That might silence all the feminists out there
Yes because loud feminists are the biggest problem facing Apple and humankind these days.
Not from what I saw. Dixons was known for having messy stores, dirty stores, and carried cheap, often junky items. I was in those stores several times when I went to London over the last few years. I can attest that they were nothing like Apple's stores, and the experience wasn't exactly first class. I don't know what you read, but the business commenting on him at the time was that they were confused as to why Apple thought him to be a good fit.
Perhaps your error is that you looked up some guy named Brovett, instead of Browett.
This however, is a great fit.