“It may have lost the latest court decision, but Samsung Electronics scored a personnel victory over Apple this month by hiring away a senior store designer,” Daisuke Wakabayashi reports for The Wall Street Journal.
“Samsung said Tim Gudgel, who has played a role in designing Apple’s stylish retail outlets, joined the company this month as a vice president and general manager of retail-sales operations,” Wakabayashi reports. “According to his LinkedIn page, Gudgel had worked as a director at Apple since March 2008. Before that, he spent six years at Gehry Partners, founded by legendary architect Frank Gehry. Among Gudgel’s accomplishments at Apple, he was a designer on a patent filing for the curved glass roof of the Apple store on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Whatever. It’s not like Samdung poached Bob Bridger.
Ya know, while the Apple stores look great, cool and all, methinks most people are driven more by the products. So no biggie there Samdung. No win.
Microsoft making their stores look like the Apple Stores has sure worked for them, oh wait…
Ain’t the store so much as what’s on that store’s tables and shelves.
Apple hired Burrberry’s CEO… People forget that Jobs also played a role in the Apple Store experience we see today.
Tim Cook knows who to surround him talent-wise on the board/VPs. Eddie Cue negotiates similarly to Jobs, Ives designs, Phil markets(altho I can see Angela take his job one day too), etc. Cook is the supply/channel guy who shares Jobs passion(albeit it internally) for making the best products.
Samsung is good at 3 things copying others’ designs but I’ll give them credit for making screens(it took them about a decade for their OLED screen research/investment to reach market) and chips(why Apple and Intel can’t work together confuses me)
“Among Gudgel’s accomplishments at Apple, he was a designer on a patent filing for the curved glass roof of the Apple store on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.”
Wow, along those credentials I’m sure Samsung’s retail-sales operations are sure to take off, maybe even catch up to those Microsoft stores. Betcha the stores have curved glass somewhere too.
Hard to believe anyone that did anything important at Apple would ever work for Samsung no matter how much money they threw at him. Chump.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
I bet this guy is way richer than I am but I would never work for Samdung for any amount. I might consider taking their money and produce a really awful design…of the trojan kind….and make them wast their money.
Keywords;
money-they-threw-at-him
I’d be a spokesperson for Samsung if they threw money at me, and then post about how great Samsung was on my iPhone. 😉
Job contract :
“Make the gullible mistake our stores for Apple and make our Sh*t look good for the idiots.”.
No one with any talent can stomach working for the unimaginative and mediocre Cook. Soon Apple will be churning generic rubbish, like the stupid over the top maudlin “Misunderstood” advertisement on TV. It’s stupid, bland and promotes the image that Apple is used by losers.
Judging from some of the more over the top arse licker fanboi commenters on this site, losers would be putting it mildly.
Extrapolating from your post, it follows that the tens of thousands of Apple employees who have *not* left are devoid of any talent?
Clueless, anonymous troll. There is neither wit nor substance to your posts. You neither inform, nor entertain. You are null.
Although most of us on the site seem to disagree with you, I admire the way you put your thoughts down without resorting to vulgarity and potty language.
You seem to care more about style than substance, as long as it is free of vulgarity.
Substance is of the highest importance to me. I can do without gratuitous vulgarity, but abolishing it is not the focus of my life.
It is easy to separate well written thoughtful missives from well written drivel. The challenge is to sort out trash from the odd nugget in vulgar rude posts.
Quixotic, according to form. You strongly remind me of the George C. Scott character in They Might Be Giants. I’d play the Joanne Woodward character — Doctor Watson to your Sherlock Holmes.
As always, you are the writer, Dr Watson. You make the ordinary seem extraordinary with your prose. Meanwhile, I have my Moriarty’s to contend with.
And what exactly are your objective qualifications for making such observations except for being a complete arse, having a piehole to spew from and a total misreader of history and actual facts? Loser describes you much too generously. Slap on your job’s hairnet and get back to work on those dishes!
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JCPenney already tried this move by hiring Ron Johnson. How did that work out?
Selling Apple products can make many people look like geniuses, until they are no longer selling Apple products…
What good is a beautiful store if you end up stocking it with shit?
God I just absolutely hate that company. I swear man – I know it’s a little too much – but my blood curdles at the thought of these low life scumbags with EVERY bit of copying they do.
I read on a macrumors forum about this and someone else claimed that Dyson is suing Samsung for copying their vacuum.
Once a slavish copier, ALWAYS a slavish copier. It’s in the Shamdung DNA and not likely to ever change.