“Ashton Kutcher plays the role of Lenovo product engineer well. Really well, almost like Michael Kelso well,” Joanna Stern reports for The Wall Street Journal.Like most product managers or engineers I speak to about their new devices, he hits the key points: how the new Android-powered Yoga Tablet 2 has been improved, why it meets consumer demands and, of course, why it’s so much better than the competition. He even deflects corporate questions, deferring to higher-up executives.
“The 36-year-old actor was ‘hired’ by Lenovo about a year ago, and at the time, he promised that the role would go beyond the typical celebrity spokesperson arrangement. (For examples of that, see Alicia Keys’ short-lived stint as BlackBerry creative director or LeBron James’ Samsung friendship),” Stern reports. “Now he’s making good on that promise with the Yoga rollout. I chatted with Kutcher this week and I think you’ll agree: This is a breakthrough role for him.”
Stern: Are you worried at all about the iPad launch next week?
Kutcher: Not at all. I’m not concerned about it in the least bit. Maybe it will be an iPhone Plus Plus. I think Apple has their fingers in a lot of things. We are really focused on this space and this product. I will be really surprised if they launch anything that approaches what we have here.
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If this isn’t a joke (and there’s no way it couldn’t be, whether poor Ashton is in on it or not), this tells you all you need to know about Lenovo and then some.
Obviously, Lenovo is not a serious company. Avoid Lenovo products like Ebola.
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Google buys $750 million stake in Lenovo – February 7, 2014
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Ashton Kutcher’s Steve Jobs bioflick bombs – August 19, 2013
Steve Jobs biofilck star Ashton Kutcher eyes $10 million deal to push Lenovo Windows PCs – July 23, 2013
lol
Ashton would promote the etch-a-sketch as “the next big thing” if he was paid enough
From acting as Steve Jobs to Michael Kelso;
he really has acting down pat.
Once so in love with Apple and preaching to youths what he believed to his very soul from playing the role… he now defects to Levonon – either bought out to keep his lips sealed or possibly a true actor — the real point is – like Windows suddenly Ashton has no class, no style as did the PCs.
Ashton Kutcher: “I’m not a genius, but I played one in a movie.”
I agree.
He might think he IS selling an etch-a-sketch.
Therefore, Belgium is moved now by one week back and laid on September 4th. The Italy Grand Prix, which should actually take place on the first weekend of September is the stage now a week later (11 September).
Ebola’s not a punchline, MDN. Thousands are dying of it.
Usually your humor’s spot on. This time, no.
Avoid Lenovo products like The Plague. Get it, yet?
God, I hate bleeding heart Liberals.
Ebola not a punchline but President Obola is……!!
Because there are people currently dying of the plague? I missed that newsflash. You can be both conservative and considerate at the same time you know.
Too bad you can’t be liberal and rationale at the same time.
You’ve got that backwards, bigoted flat-earther.
You are confusing bigotry with a disdain for stupidity.
Bet your parents were lazy hippies high on pot when they conceived your worthless ass. Didn’t fall far from the tree, did you.
…or be conservative and know how to spell simple words.
Doug, here’s the news flash for you.
So far in 2014, 4 human cases of plague in the USA. 4 in 2013, similar each year back to 2009, when there were 8 cases. Plague is endemic in the USA.
Click to access mm6340md.pdf
We don’t know he’s a “liberal” but it’s obvious you’re an ***hole. Besides, being called a bleeding heart liberal is a compliment.
Compared to the other things people call you I’m sure that “bleeding heart liberal” really IS a compliment.
Calling someone a “bleeding heart liberal” is NOT a compliment, but liberals are not bright enough to figure it out.
Actually, I think you’re underestimating most liberals. We get it, but we just turned it into a plus, as opposed to a negative.
Many liberals are also known for their optimism, after all.
uh, the American strain is “Obola.”
Bottbola
Melvinoma.
…a severe, often fatal, attrition of the backbone.
Not bad for a name, although your description is not consistent with it.
Botox
Botulism
Ergo, you are poison
Melvin, found this neat HTML snippet you can place in your website:
Some content was stripped by our security filters, but it should be possible for one of your Editors to embed the content for you.
enjoy!
Sure. Please email to bitbucket@eatme
lol, it was an Obama Countdown Days Left In Office clock…guess MDN doesn’t allow that. But, you’d LOVE it!
see how thoughtful I am of you? I was reaching out, Melvin.
A guys dies and goes to heaven. Let’s call him Melvin. Peter meets Melvin at the Pearly Gates for a tour of the digs.
Right off the bat, they come to a mansion with clocks on the wall. Some of them don’t seem to be moving at all, while others are spinning at a pretty good clip. Obviously, these are not ordinary clocks.
Melvin asks Peter about the wall of clocks.
“Oh, those are our lie clocks,” explains Peter. “Whenever someone on earth tells a lie, their clock moves one degree.”
Peter points out Mother Teresa’s clock.
“Her clock never moved during most of her life on earth,” said Peter. “And there’s Billy Graham’s clock. It hardly ever moved a tick.”
Melvin spotted one clock whose hands never stopped moving.
“Oh, said Peter, “that’s Bill Clinton’s clock.”
That gave Melvin an idea.
“Where’s Obama’s clock?” he asked.
Peter said, “That’s in Jesus’s office. He’s using it as a ceiling fan.”
artistic license.
I sincerely doubt that you are a licensed artist, botty. You posts do not exhibit any enlightened aesthetics.
Lighten up.
get over it. lots of people die of hurricanes and we name sports teams after them
There is a sports team named Katrina?
Ever see Team America. Get over yourself.
Go do something useful!
Are we being Punk’d?
good view point!
He will get “Punked” next week!
Just another “celebrity” spokesperson. Nothing of particular importance, even if Kutcher is sincere in his love and admiration for the Lenova Yoga Tablet 2 (terrible name, btw).
Kutcher follows a long and infamous line of people go have dismissed Apple products that have not even been shipped. Every one of them ended up “being surprised” when the Apple iPod, iphone, or iPad kicked their butts so severely that their products eventually ceased to exist. Kutcher is a mediocre actor who got his job because of looks. His opinion on this matter carries no weight, especially since he is paid to advocate Lenovo products.
what a dork
He isn’t near as good as article pretends. The right answer to that question would be, “Of course they are the category leader and any new announcement by Apple will make a big splash. However, I believe we have the product that will for the first time seriously challenge them for the top spot. Next year they are going to be scared of us”. See that would have made him look confident but not stupid. Of course no matter what or how he said it, they are gonna get crushed.
I almost feel sorry for Kutcher. He obviously wants to be a Jobs-like visionary and design Apple products so bad, but of course Apple isn’t going to let him.
So he settles for “designing” irrelevant Lenovo junk and “competing” against the company he really wants to work for.
Dude, where’s your dignity?
If you are aware of any part of Kutcher’s life and career, you should know dignity plays absolutely no role in it.
I just lost any respect I might have had for ol’ Kelso.
Ashton, your “Don’t Fear The iPad” needs more cowbell.
Guys! Thats a iMac wireless keyboard with the keys replaced with a screen.
Wow! What a way to act like SPJ. Steal his design of the iMac keyboard and pretend you thought it up all by yourself. Then hope no one notices.
He’s talking about something that isn’t even supposed to be portable, he emphasises it’s an entertainment device for the home!
Idiot.
Me thinks he has taken his Steve Jobs role in the biopic too seriously with “No need for Bluetooth speakers or setting your phone in a cup—it just works.” He can no longer separate himself from the characters he plays!
Hey Ashton your just as stupid as Balmer is. The rumored 12.5 iPad is going to be just like Surface 3 but better. If rumors hold it is supposed to run 10.10 with keyboard attached. When you take off the keyboard it uses iOS 8. What does Surface 3 changes to is a pile of junk. So be afraid, be very afraid.
That’s a terrible rumor. I want a big iPad not some new Mac…
So in other word he’s going to be very very surprised
Ashton Kutcher. Product Engineer. Enough said.
I couldn’t believe it was the same person. What an obnoxious sleeze.
It amazes me is that companies are willing to pay celebrities for this nonsense. It reminds me of when Blackberry had Alicia Keys as a “creative consultant” or something. I assume that it was a paid position, and to this day I am not entirely sure what the role she played at the company was.
I am a mac user since Mac 128, then the fatMac->then SE, classic and so on, still have iPhone 1 working as new, And i don’t dismiss that lenovo, they are not bad in quality, this design looks really good, price is just right, and the ONLY bad feature is ANDROID, and it is subjective at most, since I use the full ecosystem. don’t be jerks and trow all that bad feedback, there are much uglier designs than that, and they are working with their designs. Not copying others.
Stern: Are you worried at all about the iPad launch next week?
Kutcher: Not at all. I’m not concerned about it in the least bit. Maybe it will be an iPhone Plus Plus. I think Apple has their fingers in a lot of things. We are really focused on this space and this product. I will be really surprised if they launch anything that approaches what we have here.
Yea, last years hardware and 32 bit. Very confident of this myself.
Actors are hired by bad companies because they are very good at telling lis like if they were true.
That is why companies like Blackberry and samsung need actors in their PR.
Note to Ashton. Playing Steve, doesn’t make you Steve. *** end note ***
No, but it’s a slap in the face to the soul he ate for dinner. Plays Steve Jobs then turns on his company? How obnoxious! What a whore!
Too much LSD. Self delusional.
has anyone told him that the movies is done… And it was a flop.??
“We are really focused on this space and this product”
We?!?!?
Like Ashton and anything to do with the development of this thing. He’s as bad as someone giving medical advice because they once played a doctor on TV.
Other wannabe Apple copycat
Don’t get it….iPad is the king
…. fools rush in where angels fear not tread