Thursday, 8 March 2007

苹果应该学会尊重

Apple这样的字眼,可能比起水果应该更容易让人想起全球热卖的iPod,和来势汹汹的iPhone,也容易让人想起“创新”、“革命”、“颠覆”这些已经有些泛滥的词语。可是在这些簇拥和火热之后,真实的苹果却也和另外两个词联系在一起,那就是“忽略”和“缺乏尊重”。

一个企业的性格和特点往往来自于老板的性格,国内的企业家都这么说。苹果自从1996年迎回曾经因为内部斗争而愤然离开的Steve Jobs之后,创新的篇章就不断的书写。从iMac,iBook,PowerBook,到一代接着一代的iPod和与之天下无双的iTunes,再到今年刚刚推出的iPhone,苹果注定了就是时尚、娱乐、性感、酷炫。Steve Jobs在1996接手Apple时,曾经在会议上脱了鞋,用脚丫子在对方的面前轻蔑、粗鲁地打着否认的手势,然后说:我们的产品出了问题,它们一点也不够性感。

之后,Apple推出的产品就如同Steve要求的一样,性感而赚钱。Apple也如同产品一样性感而赚钱。Steve用了10年的时间不断证明自己的确能够"Think Different",但是如果看了Wall Stree Journal中文网的苹果广告海外版无人喝彩,你会发现,Apple也如同Steve那样粗鲁,粗鲁在忽略了其他人,也对他们缺乏尊重。

文章说:

苹果公司(Apple Inc.)在将其“苹果电脑PK个人电脑”(Mac vs. PC)系列广告推向全球市场时遭遇了一个难题:美国人认为滑稽有趣的情节在其他国家却可能显得粗鲁无礼。

这里有Apple一系列的广告video。在日本,讽刺他人的缺点,炫耀自己的长处是被认为无礼的,是Apple没有注意到,还是为Apple做广告策划的TBWAChiatDay没有注意到,还是Apple不屑去注意。毫无疑问,Apple是认准了本身的特色,而希望让自己的形象宣传放之四海而皆准。这大概和现在全球市场上的宣传原则相背。

听闻Apple的掌门人Steve Jobs从来没有来过中国,很难想象,又不难想象这样一位偏执的老头会不来拥有庞大市场的中国跑一趟。可能因为偏执才会有他性感的想象力,才会有许多中国企业家认定他为心中的目标,才会有他和Apple粗鲁的行为。

Saturday, 3 March 2007

Be an environmentalist

WWF it is an organization the goal of which is to build a future where people live in harmony with nature. I have joined WWF and become a WWF passport holder. It is now my obligation to constantly take actions to make people aware of the damages people are making to the nature.

Below is the second email that I sent to help keep a natural treasure located in Bulgaria, when someone is giong to make it a holiday complex ILLEGALLY. This email is said to be deliverable to Bulgarian Prime Minister, Sergey Stanshev, and Bulgaria Prosecutor general, Boris Velchev.

Protect Bulgaria's natural treasures

Bulgaria has some of Europe's most valuable natural areas, but these treasures are being steadily destroyed.

Holiday homes, hotels, villas and ski resorts are being built illegally in many of Bulgaria's national and nature parks despite contrary to national laws and regulations.

For example a holiday complex is being illegally constructed on the Black Sea coast in Strandzha Nature Park, not far from the village of Varvara. But despite a court decision to stop construction, work still continues and units of the complex have already been sold to foreign investors.

Elsewhere the official protected status of Kamchiiski pyasytsi - the largest sand beach in Bulgaria - has been effectively removed to pave the way for development of a sea resort.

These are areas of European importance and the Bulgarian government is obliged to ensure their protection not only for its people, but for the wider international community.

As a Chinese with exceptionally fast-paced development which caused imbalance of the environment, I am sad to know such imbalance takes place across the globe, especially those activities that are against laws.

I therefore urge you to implement existing laws and regulations and take the necessary steps to ensure real protection for the country's natural riches.

Yours sincerely,
Benny

The first email was sent to help Peruvian mahogany and animal habitats that used to be biologically rich.

Let's do something together for the mother earth.

Friday, 2 March 2007

Just say "Hi"

Hi everyone there. It's been a week that I haven't get my blog updated. One week can be a good gap to update a blog -- neither shorter nor longer works. There is a mess in my mind and nowadays I wasn't able to refresh myself but catching up workload left thanks to the Spring Festival. Maybe it's time to pay for it.

But one thing now: there will be some changes to this blog. Because of some inconvenience constantly caused by the blog server, the blog in China Business News (第一财经) will be the place where I post some ideas on the society, human being, life, religion, me, and so on (sounds a social scholar?), basically no business at all. At this blog will be business-only blog about marketing, IT, financial or any other thing alike.

The reason to have two blogs is I really have something to say but it will be better to have different things in different places.

If you are interested, please refer to the blog in CBN. Thank you so much for your support, although I am not an Internet celebrity =).

Saturday, 24 February 2007

春节回归报到

春节回了老家江西南昌过年,紧凑地安排了几天后昨天回到了上海,特来报到。除了过年,这次对老家南昌也有了些不同的看法——秋水广场、生米大桥、红谷滩还有亮化工程,都给带我一种蓬勃发展的感觉。而且,呆惯了繁华热闹的上海,感觉南昌的交通真实特别的顺畅,呵呵。

各位,你们的春节是如何度过的?

Sunday, 18 February 2007

猪年好!

不论你狗年过得如何,做了什么,有多么高兴或者失落,都祝愿我的家人、朋友、同事、伙伴、博友们猪年大吉。

Thursday, 15 February 2007

Videos of iPhone and Google

Say no more today. Just to enjoy the two videos below about Google as a nice company to work for and iPhone as another innovate iconic weapon of Apple that aims to shake up the mobile phone industry. They explained clearly why the two companies has received rave comments.

Steve Jobs at Macworld 2007, presenting iPhone



NBC on Google, commenting on its working environment