To fully grasp how seriously Apple executives sweat the small stuff, consider this: For months, a packaging designer was holed up in this room performing the most mundane of tasks – opening boxes.
One after another, the designer created and tested an endless series of arrows, colors, and tapes for a tiny tab designed to show the consumer where to pull back the invisible, full-bleed sticker adhered to the top of the clear iPod box. Getting it just right was this particular designer’s obsession.
What’s more, it wasn’t just about one box. The tabs were placed so that when Apple’s factory packed multiple boxes for shipping to retail stores, there was a natural negative space between the boxes that protected and preserved the tab. – Adam Lashinsky, Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired – and Secretive – Company Really Works
Without further ado, we bring you a montage of unboxing videos for Google’s tiny screen Nexus 7 tablet:
MacDailyNews Take: You can’t compete when you’re not even in the same league.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
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Freaking hilarious!
At least my Android device isn’t ad-infested since I can block ads at the root operating system level. Bang fanboys, strike back to that :-)!
I can take an old Motorola flip phone out of my pocket and have unlimited calls and text anywhere in Canada and the USA for $25 a month.
Eat that Fragmendroid.
Ah only with Google, can you not only look like an idiot carrying around one of their devices, but also just trying to get it out of the box will make you look like a moron.
Well done Google, well done. Consistency, too bad it’s the wrong type.