Did anyone notice Jobs wore New Balance sneakers?

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macasaurusmacasaurus
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
While watching the quicktime stream of the Apple Music Event, I wondered what Jobs wore on his feet and I found out that he wears some new Balance shoes. And since we know from the old Nike Michael Jordan commercials that "it's gotta be the shoes!" We should all wear some new balance shoes in order to change the computer world one innovation at a time! hehehe....
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  • Reply 1 of 32
    applenutapplenut Posts: 5,768member
    I have two pairs of the exact same model shoe he was wearing. I was very excited about that, I know, I'm lame.



    great running shoes, bit pricey. and they get torn up but with insoles they are heaven on the feet.
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    splinemodelsplinemodel Posts: 7,311member
    Meh. New balance have never impressed me. they are heavy and clunky. I hate to say it, but in my book Nike wins as far as running shoes are concerned. Asics is a close second. New Balance does make a few nice models, but 90% of their market, I'm convinced, is selling running shoes to people who never run.



    Jobs would be a good example here.
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  • Reply 3 of 32
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    ...Asics forever. I've been wearing Gel Kayanos for the last 4 years for running and walking.



    I thought everybody knew Steve wore New Balance...
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  • Reply 4 of 32
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    eh, at one keynote he was wearing a pair of green Prada elf shoes.
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  • Reply 5 of 32
    the placid casualthe placid casual Posts: 49member
    I've seen him in New Balance at Keynotes for years...



    He is a man of taste.



    I have worn New Balance for the last 10+ years!



    Won't wear anything else sneaker wise.



    Peace,



    TPC
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  • Reply 6 of 32
    der kopfder kopf Posts: 2,275member
    You can say what you want about Jobs, but I wouldn't want his de-sneakered foot in my face at the end of a long hot day.
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  • Reply 7 of 32
    scottibscottib Posts: 381member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Eugene

    ...Asics forever. I've been wearing Gel Kayanos for the last 4 years for running and walking.



    I thought everybody knew Steve wore New Balance...



    I still have a pair of Onitsuka Tigers (blue with orange stripes) laying about the house. Beat to crap, but so damn comfortable.
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  • Reply 8 of 32
    macasaurusmacasaurus Posts: 243member
    I personally wear a pair of Saucony shoes. I used to wear New Balance, but Saucony seemed like it was geared more toward comfort. New Balance would still be my second choice, however.
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  • Reply 9 of 32
    applenutapplenut Posts: 5,768member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Splinemodel

    Meh. New balance have never impressed me. they are heavy and clunky. I hate to say it, but in my book Nike wins as far as running shoes are concerned. Asics is a close second. New Balance does make a few nice models, but 90% of their market, I'm convinced, is selling running shoes to people who never run.



    Jobs would be a good example here.



    Nike sucks when you have a size 16 and a wide foot.



    Asics are frickin expensive and fall apart if you do anything other than run in them.



    New Balance has proven reliable.



    For cleats i can usually get Reebok or Nike.
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  • Reply 10 of 32
    dgnldgnl Posts: 42member
    NIke Sucks because they are one of the worst companies on earth, try taking a look at where and who made your shoes and how much they got paid to make them. Compared to how much you paid for them and how much of that money goes to one big nasty corporation.



    In fact all the big sneaker companies are bad, New Balance is the least evil.
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  • Reply 11 of 32
    nwhyseenwhysee Posts: 151member
    Screw that we need to get Jobs to create some shoes for Nikes "celebrity design series". Any Nike shoe he wants to be designed however he wants, with some profit going towards a charitable cause. Like the "ipods for the masses" fund.
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  • Reply 12 of 32
    stoostoo Posts: 1,490member
    Quote:

    Nike sucks when you have a size 16 and a wide foot.



    I thought I had it bad with really narrow size ten feet (I nearly cross the uppers over, even wih insoles). Every time I find a pair of trainers that fit, next season's models become "wide", "wider" and "widest".
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  • Reply 13 of 32
    escherescher Posts: 1,811member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Stoo

    Every time I find a pair of trainers that fit, next season's models become "wide", "wider" and "widest".



    I swear by Adidas, and hate to wear anything else. Adidas have been the best fit for my tiny (7.5) but wide feet. However, my wife has had terrible quality problems with New Balance shoes. After three pairs of NB's disintegrating prematurely, she's moved on to other brands.



    Escher
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  • Reply 14 of 32
    nebagakidnebagakid Posts: 2,692member
    what model/color were they?



    i wear the 602's right now...
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  • Reply 15 of 32
    macusersmacusers Posts: 840member
    Ya what models are those, I seriously want to get them... lol
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  • Reply 16 of 32
    applenutapplenut Posts: 5,768member
    991
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  • Reply 17 of 32
    graphicumpgraphicump Posts: 82member
    I have 991 and 324 -they are both incredibly comfortable (I work in a yucky office park where they lay industrial carpet over concrete) and both have lasted forever. The 991s I got for Christmas and the 324s I bought at the beginning of the summer.



    No quality issues at all, and they fit my very odd (wide by the toes, narrow at the heel) foot.
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  • Reply 18 of 32
    splinemodelsplinemodel Posts: 7,311member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by applenut

    Nike sucks when you have a size 16 and a wide foot.



    Asics are frickin expensive and fall apart if you do anything other than run in them.



    New Balance has proven reliable.



    For cleats i can usually get Reebok or Nike.



    Heh heh. Well I have the typical runner's foot: size 11B. Nike was started as a company that made running shoes for runners, and they have some really sweet models if you look for em. Nike's do run very narrow, (I actually special order their extra narrow models), but us people with narrow feet like that. With size 16 and wide, I don't take it you're a runner. That's a lot of inertia to haul around. Should give you some sweet accuracy for kicking a ball though.



    Asics, I've found, are rugged as hell and fairly cheap, actually. I put. . . hmmm. . . probably over 1000 miles in a pair of 140's a few years ago. Held up fine.



    You may want to try Saucony because they run quite wide.



    For cleats I go Diadora, the narrowest cleats I've ever found.



    Getting back on topic, does anyone have a picture of the "elf shoes"? I bought a pair of brown shoes that I call my "elf shoes" (when you're a man on the narrow side of B you take what you can get) and I'm wondering what qualifies exactly as an elf shoe.

    (My elf shoe [Can't really tell from this angle])
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  • Reply 19 of 32
    nebagakidnebagakid Posts: 2,692member


    the 991's
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  • Reply 20 of 32
    macusersmacusers Posts: 840member
    kind of expensive, anyone got theirs under $120?
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