Leander Kahney reports for Cult of Mac, “We all know that Steve Jobs is obsessed with crafting top-notch customer experiences. Of course, he’s famous for being dismissive of focus groups, but did you know he spies on customers at his local Apple Store?”
Kahney reports, “Better than that, he hides in the bushes outside the store carefully watching what’s going inside, like some black-turtlenecked Jane Goodall.”
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Is that Steve Jobs in your bush or are you just happy to see me?
for some reason i cannot get a steve jobs bobble-head doll vision out of my head!
Nice Job Steve 😀
I wondered why that shrub in the mall kept following me!
Busy for someone with “six weeks to live”…..
The story may be months (if not years) old. The picture in the linked article is from 2004.
next they are going to say while he is in bushes, his pants are down to his ankles and he is jerking something in his hand
Ii think that’s fantastic.
Oh really? The only reason why I hid in bushes is twofold.
When I was in high school I used to hide in the bushes growing around the house of the girl I fancied in an attempt to peek at her bush. So in an upside down way it was like but not quite like the Laura Bush effect except I was hunched over in the prickly bushes outside while she was waltzing in air-conditioned splendor inside. She revealed just enough to make my wait worthwhile and in a little way sent me on my way to heaven. Not quite the Jobsian heaven I had envisaged for my future but getting along the way there.
And secondly when I had the urge to pee and at that hour of the evening there weren’t that very many people around and I was on the verge of literally exploding in my pants and couldn’t find a public toilet anywhere that I conveniently deposited the results of my beer drinking binge on the bushes of an unnamed shop which wasn’t Apple because quite simply while they existed they weren’t as prevalent as they are today.
Thus endeth the parable of my life, Steve Jobs and bushes.
Obama, Putin, Gore, bushes…
Anyone see a pattern here? (I’m thinking Herringbone and turtle necks)
Obviously someone got their invite to the royal wedding.
We’ll soon see what’s in store….
What bushes. There are no bushes to hide in.
Head like a fscking orange
So *that’s* the secret! Could you imagine Ballmer trying to hide his fat ass anywhere near a Microsoft store?
Hide from who? HAH!
Now we know why Apple stores have such big windows. It’s not for pleasing architectural purposes. It’s so that Steve can look in better!
Now we know that Steve is REALLY a ninja!
No, Steve’s really Hari Seldon. Just wait.
I must need new glasses! I don’t see a clearly identifiable image of either Steve or an Apple store.
On the other hand-whatever Steve has done seems to be working pretty well.
My guess is that following this story MS and Google will battle it out to see who is first to market with bush camouflage with two external hard drives and provisions for flash!
What a ridiculous story. I HIGHLY DOUBT that Steve would be hiding in the bushes to see what customers are up to. I’ve personally seen him INSIDE the stores, watching customers. That’s what Steve does. Duh.
So does that mean every Apple store has at least one bush outside it, or does he simply dress as a bush?
Stupid rediculous story with no facts. FUD!
Nonsense!
The Apple Store at Stanford Shopping Center? That’s like the tiniest Apple Store in the world (not to be confused with the other Apple Store about a mile away in downtown Palo Alto). I guess its smallness makes it easier to see what’s happening inside without being inside. 🙂
Nah, he’s just hanging out with the men from the grassy knoll. Anyway, all he has to do is tap into the security cameras or have a camera installed in each store to do the observing from the comfort of his easy chair.
Ballmer tried it, and gets caught all the time. He keeps forgetting to stay down wind.
Don’t Apple stores have cameras?
That photo in the link reminded me of the Doctors office collection of “Highlights’ Books that had the ‘find the elephant in the picture.
So look carefully at the photo folks and find the Steve Jobs in the picture or the iPad 2 or Tim Cook or the iPhone 5 or the crying Steve Ballmer, or the new MacBook Pro…
I doubt the veracity of this story, but I can’t help but smile at the image of a mall flower bed, containing a stealthy, mock-turtleneck-clad California Cactus, wearing round, wire-rim glasses.
I doubt the veracity of this story, but I can’t help but smile at the idea of a mall flower bed, containing a stealthy, mock-turtleneck-clad California Cactus, wearing round, wire-rim glasses.
“In this picture there is one CEO. He cannot be seen. In this film we hope to show your CEO How Not To Be Seen.”
is he like the manbush, as played by Tom Arnold?
“manbush, you are nature’s greatest wonder!”
iSpy?. The remake.
I should hope he is keeping an eye on costumer service at his stores. I’d do the same thing except it is a lot harder for him as everyone knows who he is.
This lame bait article reminds me why I stopped Wired long ago. Any decent company monitors it’s retail outlets. McDonald’s in the 1980’s had plain clothes “inspectors” that would drop by stores to ensure workplace and service standards were being upheld. I saw a tyrant manager get fired on the spot after openly berating a hardworking worker for no good reason. The inspector stood up, showed his credentials, then told the manager to pack up his stuff and get out.
What a freak.
I would think he’d hire people for that. Send his wife, kids…
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