tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21822421.post6147446394631441129..comments2009-12-07T15:06:57.215-08:00john doddshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10612754967881520028noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21822421.post-3143190524828309002008-05-01T18:21:00.000-07:002008-05-01T18:21:00.000-07:00Nice article. The simple truth in so few words. Even so, probably never going to penetrate the minds of large corporate brands that still believe in pushing their products into the hands of users, instead of pulling users in, which Apple does so well. And which is also why, Apple shares will keep going up and up and up and up...Legithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04230390261246097923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21822421.post-62412771729014421832008-04-16T16:36:00.000-07:002008-04-16T16:36:00.000-07:00So writes the Saturday boy from their Birmingham store.john doddshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10612754967881520028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21822421.post-31413159544871872472008-04-15T03:30:00.000-07:002008-04-15T03:30:00.000-07:00Apple hire great people as well. It's a fact.Samhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09674737956032392387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21822421.post-87652993060615297852008-04-09T14:47:00.000-07:002008-04-09T14:47:00.000-07:00Thanks Charles. Just following your lead - albeit without accosting young female trendsetters. I wonder if this make me an ethnogrpaher - would Grant M approve?john doddshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10612754967881520028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21822421.post-22658238419886454352008-04-08T17:09:00.000-07:002008-04-08T17:09:00.000-07:00Great post John. Photography brings it alive and proves the point beyond question. I see that Nokia were boasting they sell a million phones a day compared to the 2 million iPhones that Apple sold since its launch.<BR/><BR/>I'm a big Nokia fan but their brand DNA is in manufacturing, economies of scale and a lightening fast distribution system that pushes a million phones a day into customers hands. Problem is that the handsets are living off ever diminishing profit margins<BR/><BR/>There's also something very Finnish /Business in their DNA that I gleaned from a visit to their labs in Oulu, Finland. But they kind of prefer not to go into that.<BR/><BR/>I've heard many times from Nokia folk that they want 'world class retail' here in China and yet the reality is they are just looking to emulate instead of dig deep inside of themselves. If only they could because Nokia are a remarkable company. Just a bit boring. Which can have its strengths if fully embraced.<BR/><BR/>Their touch screen iPhone copy currently called Tube is coming out later this year and one wonders why the leading phone retailer in the world can't trump iPhone but needs to do what their competition have always done so well. Copy each other.Charles Frithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09231685619963486690noreply@blogger.com