“Stars can often score hot products before the rest of us. But in the lead-up to a product launch at Apple, nobody’s tastemaker status matters,” Jason Feifer reports for Fast Company.
“Free stuff flows readily for celebrities,” Feifer reports. “As New York recently reported, companies leap at any personal news–sending baby stuff to new moms, cars to a birthday party, and $100,000 in goodies to red-carpet walkers. Companies want to glom onto a celeb’s buzz, so they can chalk the giveaways up to smart marketing.”
Feifer reports, “But at Apple, whose product launches spark entire news cycles, no celebrity symbiosis is necessary. Which means the company is skilled at saying ‘no’ to people who only hear ‘yes.’ Apple would never say who’s calling them right now, but we found a few people willing to admit to past inquiries.”
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MacDailyNews Take: There’s no need to cater to influencers when you are the world’s #1 tastemaker.
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