“Before Steve Jobs got his hands on Apple for the second time in 1997, things were far simpler,” Jonathan Salem Baskin writes for Entrepreneur. “Serious business customers were different from their playful consumer counterparts. Men bought technology products; women were fashion buyers. Kids had disposable income to waste, and mature folks cautiously invested their pennies. Branding promises were made solely in beautiful advertising, price was pretty much all that mattered at retail, and customer usage and satisfaction were afterthoughts.”
“Oh, what a difference an iMac makes,” Baskin writes. “Jobs was a magician, capable of casting a ‘reality distortion field’ on anyone in his presence… by inventing a new reality, he ruined branding as we knew it.”
“Apple blew up the rules of branding because Jobs simply didn’t recognize them. He didn’t follow the approved checklist, and he never did what he was supposed to do. He knew that someone else’s success wouldn’t be his own, not because of his ego, but because it’s a fact that imitating others has never resulted in great successes,” Baskin writes. “He left it to Apple’s competitors to produce lame, unsold computers with colorful lids, knockoff ads that inadvertently made Apple look better and a world of smartphones and tablets that look like iPhones and iPads.”
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Tim Cook reading this, shrugs and wonders aloud – “what the heck is this guy talking about?”
Yes, Tim Cook hasn’t been around long enough to know Steve’s modus operandi.
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@Jay Morrison, I have noticed you are very much anti Tim Cook , perhaps you would like to take over his job, I guess.
OMFG! … Deadbeat moron morrison is severing em’ up on silver platers.
Anyone reading moron morrison, shrugs and wonders aloud – “what the heck is this guy talking about?”
So far the article author has not made a single point which is accurate about branding.
“How Steve Jobs blew up the rules of branding”…
Steve knew what he was doing. Why do you think during his many keynotes at the introduction of many of his products when he would demonstrate how “things just worked” Steve would use his catchphrase “Boom”!
Can we stop comparing Cook to Jobs? He’s just not the same man. Or genius. Steve was one of a kind and we won’t see another like him again in our life times. Demanding Cook fill his shoes is just wishful thinking.
“imitating others has never resulted in great successes”
I can use that one.