Your judging her pay of $100 million based off what you see, she is a formerBurburry CEO, maybe she's getting paid money for the fashion knowledge she's bringing to the table... also the whole townhall concept is a good way to draw in local customers and get them buying Mac products. Get them involved, get them liking the product. After all Apple is built on making products just work right out of the box for the non computer geek people.
You cannot be serious? You've jumped off the deep end sog. She's one of the most inspiring leaders I've ever known of. Apple's new stores are the most beautiful stores I've ever seen. Her vision and clarity and taste and sensibleness are nothing short of amazing. She is a great individual.
And they were crap before she was there? $100 million for some pretty obvious tweaks and frankly not much retail innovation (my g-friend is a global retail expert and has plenty of insight... says she hasn't contributed anything that a senior retail consultant couldn't manage... for about $400k a year).
"She's one of the most inspiring leaders I've ever known of"... your bar is seriously low... you'd give McDs a Michelin star
Hey, would you ask your girlfriend if she could get me a deal on one of those 6K video walls like they have in the Apple stores?
Thing is, I think they contracted those things out for $1.5 million each, and they had a crew of 30 or so with people travelling all around the continent and the world, but I don't want a bunch of people tramping around my house and yard, so maybe she could figure out a way to get it done with less people, but I want everybody to speak English and not cut any corners . . .
planting trees in the stores is the only thing I notice
Come back and comment when you've earned your first $100 million.
He's waiting for Apple to make him his first $100 Million and will continue you spout out about how he can run a Fortune 500 company better than everyone else until he gets it.
You cannot be serious? You've jumped off the deep end sog. She's one of the most inspiring leaders I've ever known of. Apple's new stores are the most beautiful stores I've ever seen. Her vision and clarity and taste and sensibleness are nothing short of amazing. She is a great individual.
And they were crap before she was there? $100 million for some pretty obvious tweaks and frankly not much retail innovation (my g-friend is a global retail expert and has plenty of insight... says she hasn't contributed anything that a senior retail consultant couldn't manage... for about $400k a year).
"She's one of the most inspiring leaders I've ever known of"... your bar is seriously low... you'd give McDs a Michelin star
Your gf is a global retail export. So has she managed retail solutions for a company with $200+ bn per year in sales?
So instead of continuous leadership, you want Apple to have temporary leadership for months at a time, non Apple employees to have access to Apple's data, different leadership with different ways of doing things?
In case you haven't noticed, Apple retail isn't run-of-the-mill retail. It is entirely different.
planting trees in the stores is the only thing I notice
What do you want her to do? Who would do better (male or female)?
free coffee and pastries to start I'd like to have a lounge area in an apple store where i can sip on coffee and eat a free danish
Just go to the Starbucks next door. It's basically a store full of Apple employees wearing aprons. Eventually, you'll notice that same employee who helped you at Starbucks is now wearing a blue shirt and holding an iPad at the front entrance of the Apple Store.
An artist sketching and a guy playing a guitar? Sure, why not bring in a homeless guy to sleep and pee on the floor and make it just like San Francisco. Get rid of Ahrendts before she Marissa Meyers Apple Retail. The only thing Apple Retail needs to do is double the size of every store, maybe add a cafe and call it a day. Stop worrying about the retail stores and update the Mac Mini, Mac Pro and the Cinema displays which haven't been refreshed in 1860 days as of today.
what the fuck do the mac hardware engineering teams have to do with retail? nothing, thats what. absolutely nothing. go hate somewhere else
planting trees in the stores is the only thing I notice
What do you want her to do? Who would do better (male or female)?
free coffee and pastries to start I'd like to have a lounge area in an apple store where i can sip on coffee and eat a free danish
The thing you're battling with that idea is you need a trained barista to make the coffee and it creates noise and takes up lots of space. You need space for tables and chairs and a room for making the coffee and pretty soon you've 1/3 of the store used up and that's not Apple's business.
not to mention the insane entitlement on sog's part to expect free food. what the hell. go to costco if you're hard up for free samples...
You cannot be serious? You've jumped off the deep end sog. She's one of the most inspiring leaders I've ever known of. Apple's new stores are the most beautiful stores I've ever seen. Her vision and clarity and taste and sensibleness are nothing short of amazing. She is a great individual.
And they were crap before she was there? $100 million for some pretty obvious tweaks and frankly not much retail innovation (my g-friend is a global retail expert and has plenty of insight... says she hasn't contributed anything that a senior retail consultant couldn't manage... for about $400k a year).
"She's one of the most inspiring leaders I've ever known of"... your bar is seriously low... you'd give McDs a Michelin star
well shit, if your girlfriend said so...guys -- close down this forum, "luvappl" 's girlfriend has it all figured out, we can go home!
absurd. but that being said i think the corporate executive class is given a disgusting amount of compensation compared to the majority of the workforce, and i hope this changes one day. wealth does not need to be concentrated at the top. (but yeah, try telling that to the corporate boards who set these wages and are, not coincidentally, at the top).
Your judging her pay of $100 million based off what you see, she is a formerBurburry CEO, maybe she's getting paid money for the fashion knowledge she's bringing to the table... also the whole townhall concept is a good way to draw in local customers and get them buying Mac products. Get them involved, get them liking the product. After all Apple is built on making products just work right out of the box for the non computer geek people.
She got paid more the first year because she lost vesting options st burburry doubt she gets 100m a year
planting trees in the stores is the only thing I notice
What do you want her to do? Who would do better (male or female)?
free coffee and pastries to start I'd like to have a lounge area in an apple store where i can sip on coffee and eat a free danish
The thing you're battling with that idea is you need a trained barista to make the coffee and it creates noise and takes up lots of space. You need space for tables and chairs and a room for making the coffee and pretty soon you've 1/3 of the store used up and that's not Apple's business.
not to mention the insane entitlement on sog's part to expect free food. what the hell. go to costco if you're hard up for free samples...
planting trees in the stores is the only thing I notice
What do you want her to do? Who would do better (male or female)?
free coffee and pastries to start I'd like to have a lounge area in an apple store where i can sip on coffee and eat a free danish
The thing you're battling with that idea is you need a trained barista to make the coffee and it creates noise and takes up lots of space. You need space for tables and chairs and a room for making the coffee and pretty soon you've 1/3 of the store used up and that's not Apple's business.
not to mention the insane entitlement on sog's part to expect free food. what the hell. go to costco if you're hard up for free samples...
planting trees in the stores is the only thing I notice
What do you want her to do? Who would do better (male or female)?
free coffee and pastries to start I'd like to have a lounge area in an apple store where i can sip on coffee and eat a free danish
The thing you're battling with that idea is you need a trained barista to make the coffee and it creates noise and takes up lots of space. You need space for tables and chairs and a room for making the coffee and pretty soon you've 1/3 of the store used up and that's not Apple's business.
not to mention the insane entitlement on sog's part to expect free food. what the hell. go to costco if you're hard up for free samples...
Don't know if he mentioned it be free.
He did. In one of the posts in the thread you're responding to.
What do you want her to do? Who would do better (male or female)?
free coffee and pastries to start I'd like to have a lounge area in an apple store where i can sip on coffee and eat a free Danish
The irony is that if Apple did that, the chances you, as an individual, would get an opportunity to use it is pretty low. Free coffee and Danish would mean a lot of people coming in to just get the free coffee and Danish. So you come in to sip coffee and eat a free Danish, but there's a huge queue, and nowhere to sit, and then someone spills their free coffee on the display iPads...
Apple would be much better off doing a deal so that there's a Starbucks or Peet's next door to every Apple store...wait a minute, there already is. Or near enough. And they have free wifi, too. You do have to pay for the coffee and Danish, though.
Free coffee and Danish? You've officially lost it sog. People complain about the stores being too crowded and your solution is to make them smaller (coffee section takes space) and give out free coffee and danish.
Well, regretting in advance that this will upset Ireland, sensitive soul that he is, I haven't seen anything she's done that made the stores better. Actually better, not just slightly different than they were.
Trees are fairly silly, as will be seen in a year or three--leaves dropping, water leaks, mold generation, branches needing trimming, etc. This was all seen the first time around in the 1970s when identical tree pods were flourishing in malls and office buildings everywhere. Really, it was an architectural cliche of the first order back then. You don't see them anymore for very good reasons.
I think her next innovation will be to replace every wall surface with a floor-to-ceiling video screen to inspire a sense of (Inside Tip: that's mandatory design speak, people, "a sense of") light, movement, youth, and positivity. Like a Hong Kong nightmare without the incessant music...so far. Then the screens will wrap around the corners, because corners are dead spots where nothing happens. Now there will be a sense of flow and immersion as videos surround you 360°.
But the problems remain: the lines are long, the staff makes itself scarce, and there's still no seating unless you're being served at the Genius Forum / Table / Don't Dare Call It A Bar. The noise levels are torturous (maybe even tortious too, but IANAL).
Well, regretting in advance that this will upset Ireland, sensitive soul that he is, I haven't seen anything she's done that made the stores better. Actually better, not just slightly different than they were.
Trees are fairly silly, as will be seen in a year or three--leaves dropping, water leaks, mold generation, branches needing trimming, etc. This was all seen the first time around in the 1970s when identical tree pods were flourishing in malls and office buildings everywhere. Really, it was an architectural cliche of the first order back then. You don't see them anymore for very good reasons.
I think her next innovation will be to replace every wall surface with a floor-to-ceiling video screen to inspire a sense of (Inside Tip: that's mandatory design speak, people, "a sense of") light, movement, youth, and positivity. Like a Hong Kong nightmare without the incessant music...so far. Then the screens will wrap around the corners, because corners are dead spots where nothing happens. Now there will be a sense of flow and immersion as videos surround you 360°.
But the problems remain: the lines are long, the staff makes itself scarce, and there's still no seating unless you're being served at the Genius Forum / Table / Don't Dare Call It A Bar. The noise levels are torturous (maybe even tortious too, but IANAL).
A bit harsh and snarky, but your core observations have some merit. My only substantive disagreement is about the staff. Have always found them ready and willing.
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Thing is, I think they contracted those things out for $1.5 million each, and they had a crew of 30 or so with people travelling all around the continent and the world, but I don't want a bunch of people tramping around my house and yard, so maybe she could figure out a way to get it done with less people, but I want everybody to speak English and not cut any corners . . .
He's waiting for Apple to make him his first $100 Million and will continue you spout out about how he can run a Fortune 500 company better than everyone else until he gets it.
So instead of continuous leadership, you want Apple to have temporary leadership for months at a time, non Apple employees to have access to Apple's data, different leadership with different ways of doing things?
In case you haven't noticed, Apple retail isn't run-of-the-mill retail. It is entirely different.
not to mention the insane entitlement on sog's part to expect free food. what the hell. go to costco if you're hard up for free samples...
absurd. but that being said i think the corporate executive class is given a disgusting amount of compensation compared to the majority of the workforce, and i hope this changes one day. wealth does not need to be concentrated at the top. (but yeah, try telling that to the corporate boards who set these wages and are, not coincidentally, at the top).
doubt she gets 100m a year
Don't know if he mentioned it be free.
He did. In one of the posts in the thread you're responding to.
The irony is that if Apple did that, the chances you, as an individual, would get an opportunity to use it is pretty low. Free coffee and Danish would mean a lot of people coming in to just get the free coffee and Danish. So you come in to sip coffee and eat a free Danish, but there's a huge queue, and nowhere to sit, and then someone spills their free coffee on the display iPads...
Apple would be much better off doing a deal so that there's a Starbucks or Peet's next door to every Apple store...wait a minute, there already is. Or near enough. And they have free wifi, too. You do have to pay for the coffee and Danish, though.
Trees are fairly silly, as will be seen in a year or three--leaves dropping, water leaks, mold generation, branches needing trimming, etc. This was all seen the first time around in the 1970s when identical tree pods were flourishing in malls and office buildings everywhere. Really, it was an architectural cliche of the first order back then. You don't see them anymore for very good reasons.
I think her next innovation will be to replace every wall surface with a floor-to-ceiling video screen to inspire a sense of (Inside Tip: that's mandatory design speak, people, "a sense of") light, movement, youth, and positivity. Like a Hong Kong nightmare without the incessant music...so far. Then the screens will wrap around the corners, because corners are dead spots where nothing happens. Now there will be a sense of flow and immersion as videos surround you 360°.
But the problems remain: the lines are long, the staff makes itself scarce, and there's still no seating unless you're being served at the Genius Forum / Table / Don't Dare Call It A Bar. The noise levels are torturous (maybe even tortious too, but IANAL).