Wednesday, September 16, 2020

How Apple learnt from other industries and changed the brand forever.

#Learning from #book - The Four by Scott Galloway.

An interesting insight that Scott brings in his book while talking about Apple is about what made Apple this much successful in terms of a company generating huge profits.

While the entire history about path-breaking innovative simple consumer friendly products  - ipods, iphone etc is well known.

πŸ‘‰ The masterstroke by Jobs was to move away from 'nerdy' domain to luxury! From the likes of IBM, HP to another domain of Luxury and Opulence.

πŸ‘‰ The revealation that one cant charge premium in making better technology products but selling objects of desire and status.

πŸ₯‡ Thus came the move of dropping 'computers' from 'Apple computers' to just 'Apple' dis-associating from the less pricey computers category.

πŸ₯ˆAnd creating temples of luxury (Apple Stores) in same neighbourhoods where you buy Prada, LV, etc; selling tech products the way luxury is sold - great lights, abundance of space, pampering service and what not.

And this made it into a brand that you gift others - Ipod, Ipad, Iphone, Smart watch and so on. You rarely gift a computer. You gift perfumes. Social Proof. Not Nerdy IQ thing.

Takeaway - "Learn from disparate categories also!"

Thoughts?

#jobs #Apple #brand #luxury #retail #marketingisSimple #consumer #tech

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