Water Cooler Talking Point: “The first step is buying your way into the consumer marketplace, but could this move mean that we see Foxconn spurn Apple altogether and create their own phone soon? Who knows, but I hope they take Siri with them.”
Apple took their annual Spring event to a new location this year: a high school, which one can only assume was done to prevent attendees from walking into the glass walls at their new HQ.
The event’s biggest announcement was the new, “more affordable” (read: $300) iPad, built with education in mind. There’s also a new classroom management app that allows teachers to communicate with their students about assignments and send them attachments. Sooo email?
All of these announcements are part of an initiative that Apple is calling ‘Everyone Can Create‘, which focuses on younger students expressing themselves creatively … which is perfect because kids should learn at a young age that going to school for art is going to cost sh*t ton.
Water Cooler Talking Point: “Back in my day we would just go school shopping at Target for Trapper Keepers and Lisa Frank pencils … now parents have to take out a second mortgage so they can afford their kid’s school supplies.”
UNSOLICITED ADVICE: Inevitably even the creme de la corporate creme will botch a deadline once every few fiscal Q’s. You might not be able to avoid the #fail, but at the very least you can hedge your bets with a disaster recovery plan. Of course even the best plans aren’t without their flaws …
EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH: Not all heroes wear capes. Case and point: the Frito Lay janitor who invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and became an executive at PepsiCo. Move over Jeff Bezos, Corporate America has a new folk hero.
