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		<title>Apple: un&#8217;azienda poco social</title>
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</script><span class = ""  style = "  float: left; "><fb:like href="http://redcatblog.com/2009/07/apple-unazienda-poco-social/" send = "false" layout="standard" show_faces="false" width="" action="like" colorscheme="light" font="" /></span><p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-428" title="jonathan_ive_steve_jobs_mac" src="http://redcatblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/jonathan_ive_steve_jobs_mac.jpg" alt="jonathan_ive_steve_jobs_mac" width="260" height="320" />In tutto questo gran parlare di aziende <em>conversanti</em> e <em>trasparenti</em> sempre più vicine ed aperte ai consumatori, non può non saltare all&#8217;occhio il caso <em><strong>Apple</strong></em>. L&#8217;azienda di Cupertino è uno dei brand più popolari, cool e ricchi del momento, con un grado di fidelizzazione e consenso maturati presso i propri consumatori che è molto vicino a quello del fervore religioso.</p>
<p>La <em>Mac Community</em>, cresciuta a dismisura negli ultimi anni, è rimasta stretta intorno al suo brand malgrado l&#8217;apertura di quest&#8217;ultimo al mercato <em>mainstream</em>, con il successo universale di <em><strong>iphone</strong></em> e il passaggio ai processori <em><strong>Intel</strong></em>.<br />
Una fede moltiplicata da conversioni di massa giunte dal mondo PC, messo in ridicolo periodicamente da azzeccate campagne pubblicitarie, subito veri e propri cult del web.</p>
<p>Ma pur essendo una delle marche <strong>più conversate</strong> dell&#8217;era Internet, Apple <strong>non conversa</strong> affatto, non ci sono Ceo o manager a scrivere business blogs e tanto meno a <strong>twittare</strong>. L&#8217;enorme e pullulante <em>social</em> della <em>mela morsa</em> rumoreggia rispettosamente fuori dalla sua porta.<br />
Di Apple, dei suoi prodotti e dei suoi capi non si sa nulla tranne lo stretto necessario attraverso i tempi e i modi decisi da Cupertino con un rigore quasi militare.<br />
<strong>Steve Jobs</strong>, il capo spirituale, ha subìto di recente un trapianto di fegato in assoluta segretezza mentre dall&#8217;<em>headquarter</em> rispondevano picche a chiunque pretendeva una maggiore condivisione delle informazioni.</p>
<p>Stiamo parlando di un&#8217;azienda quotata in borsa, i cui alti e bassi coinvolgono il portafogli di migliaia di persone. Eppure questa filosofia del <em>bunker</em>, ripresa non molto tempo fa anche <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/technology/23apple.html?_r=2" target="_blank">dal <em>New York Times</em></a>, funziona alla grande e premia i suoi autori con profitti stellari, <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conoscenza_di_marca" target="_blank"><em>brand awareness</em></a> esplosiva e <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrimonio_di_marca" target="_blank"><em>brand equity</em></a> che cola da tutte le parti.</p>
<p>In una <a href="http://www.macworld.co.uk/procreative/news/index.cfm?RSS&amp;NewsID=26461" target="_blank">recente intervista</a> al <em>Royal College of Art</em>, <strong>Jonathan Ive</strong>, il designer-prodigio responsabile del look irresistibile dei prodotti Mac, ha rilasciato una dichiarazione perfettamente in linea con la filosofia <em>anti-social</em> della Mela che a quanto pare se ne infischia anche di testare i propri progetti attraverso strumenti canonici come i <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_group" target="_blank"><strong>focus groups</strong></a>: <em>&#8220;Noi non facciamo focus groups. Quelli servono solo ad essere sicuri di non offendere nessuno e di conseguenza si fanno prodotti inoffensivi e di scarso interesse&#8221;.</em></p>
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<p><span style="color: #888888;"><strong>(Apple: a Company not so social)</strong><br />
In all this big talk about conversing and transparent brands, always closer to their critic consumers, it hits you the Apple case. The corporation of Cupertino is one of the most popular, cool and rich brands of the moment with a level of engagement and consensus accrued from its customers that goes close to religious fervour.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #888888;">T<span style="color: #888888;">he Mac Community that enormously grew up during last years, hanged together around its brand although the opening to mainstream market with the universal success of iPhone or the crossing to Intel processors. A <em>faith</em> multiplied with mass conversions arrived from PC world, periodically ridiculed by on the beam campaigns quickly turned into web cults.<br />
But although it&#8217;s one of the most conversed brand of the Internet Age, Apple is not conversing at all! There are no Ceo or managers writing Biz Blogs or least of all twittering their job days. The giant, pullulating <strong>Social Thing</strong> about the crunched fruit, happens entirely and respectfully out of its closed doors.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #888888;">We don&#8217;t know Anything about Apple, their products, their managers but the bare minimum and in the ways decided by Cupertino under an almost military severity. Steve Jobs, the spiritual leader, had recently a liver transplant covered by an absolute secrecy while from the headquarter they denied to the world every further communications. We&#8217;re still talking of a publicly-traded company, whose up and downs envolve thousands of wallets out there.<br />
Nevertheless, this bunker strategy also mentioned some time ago <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/technology/23apple.html?_r=2" target="_blank">by NY Times</a>, works great and rewards its authors with booming sells, exploding Brand Awareness and a draining out Brand Equity.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #888888;">In a <a href="http://www.macworld.co.uk/procreative/news/index.cfm?RSS&amp;NewsID=26461" target="_blank">recent interview</a> at Royal College of Art, Mr. Jony Ive, the prodigy designer responsible of the irresistible look of  all Mac products, released a statement that perfectly tunes with that Apple <em>anti-social</em> philosophy. According to him, they also shrug off testing their projects through canonical marketing tools like focus groups. &#8220;</span><em><span style="color: #888888;">We don&#8217;t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don&#8217;t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products.”</span><br />
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