A commenter over at AVC this morning posted a great story from Vic Gundotra. Net net, Jobs called Vic on a Sunday with this urgent issue:
"I've been looking at the Google logo on the iPhone and I'm not happy with the icon. The second O in Google doesn't have the right yellow gradient."Jobs was one of the greatest markers in the world. His Agency partner Lee Clow said it best:
"There isn't a single thing Apple does that isn't a message that confirms or reinforces how you feel about the company. I often tell people that the best ad we ever did was the Apple Store. We do great TV commercials, we do wonderful billboards, but you walk into an Apple store and you're now immersed in a brand that's going to change your life."Jobs said that Apple stood for People with passion can change the world. He executed to that vision in everything the company did - from products, to packaging, to the advertising, the website, the store - the vision was the culture at the core and everything became an expression of it. Brilliant brands are in the details, and Steve Jobs was the master of all of them.
"… You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." (Stanford University June 2005)
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