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Hello Aluxers! As we continue our short series, we’re taking a look at the biggest flops of 2019.
Let’s have a look shall we?
Everybody knows Apple is expensive but $1000 for a monitor stand sounds like a bit of a stretch when you’re thinking from a consumer perspective.
Believe it or not, we actually don’t have a problem with the fact that there’s a maxed-out version of the mac pro costing more than a tesla model 3.
We also think the $5000 price tag for the monitor is completely fair.
These devices are not for you Fortnite players out there.
These are purchased by businesses who simply want the most punch they can get.
At $5000 you’re pretty much getting a steal since just a few years ago, similar displays were costing over $25,000.
The problem with the $1000 stand was the way it was presented.
This is actually a $6000 set-up that you can purchase for $5000 if you want the display alone.
This would’ve been received differently.
As for the businesses that buy these, they don’t care about the extra grand.
It was all negative attention that could’ve been handled better from a presentation perspective.
Remember when Samsung phones were blowing up?... those were the days…
This year they launched the folding phone. An amazing new technology that is going to take us into the future.
For decades, every device out there came with a plastic foil that you take off before using your device.
Tech companies have trained us to remove them in order to enjoy the their products.
The folding phone had a similar plastic overlay… but you weren’t supposed to tear it off.
Only it didn’t say that anywhere. Even the corners were exposed just waiting for you.
And people behaved like they were trained to behave effectively ruining every device out there.
Not only this but in their rush to deliver something amazing and new, they didn’t take enough time to perfect the technology.
Every folding device out there still has display problems,
the crest forming is a nightmare and in a fairly short amount of time it begins to affect functionality.
We love the fact that they are pushing the limits of technology, it’s just that we wanted it to work as it was presented.
Samsung once again took a PR hit when they had to issue a massive recall.
We talked about this before on our channel because frankly, it made history.
The $35 billion divorce between the richest man in the world and his novelist wife.
Truth be told, she could’ve gotten more if she really went for it,
but that would've deprived Jeff of his status and drop him under the $100 billion mark - so they ended it pretty amicably.
Why did we put this as a flop?
Because it’s hard to justify why anyone would get that much money just for being someone’s spouse.
Mackenzie Bezos - of course, she’s keeping the name - is now worth $35 billion.
Just to put it in perspective, at the moment of making this video, Elon Musk is worth only $22 billion,
and he’s built multiple companies and has dedicated his entire life to push humanity forward
- by far one of the most successful and brilliant people we’ve ever had on this planet.
As a husband and wife you share the success and rewards each of you achieves, but this shouldn’t mean you are entitled to them.
The current divorce laws are in place since the days women were seen as inferior to men and only good as stay-at-home moms.
There were efforts to limit women’s ability to perform in the marketplace.
This was back then, but we’re living in the present.
We’re all active agents in the marketplace, women have the same rights as men.
Maybe it’s time we start looking at these things with a more critical eye.
And speaking of equality:
We feel like hollywood’s got this feminism thing all wrong and it’s kind of annoying us.
Their strategy is to remake successful movies with an all-female cast. As everyone knows, this has backfired massively.
One movie after the other they all flopped.
It’s not a strategy of the male consumer to keep women out of the cinema, instead, it just feels forced.
The female ghostbusters, Charlies Angels, Dark Phoenix, Men in black - moving away from the premise in the title.
These movies didn’t flop because the cast was female, they were simply not that good.
There are plenty of amazing movies where the star is a female,
just take a look at Wonder Woman, Kill Bill, Shoutout to Xena the princess warrior; or even the original Charlie’s Angels.
This brutal reversal and an overall attitude of WOMEN GOOD, MEN BAD shoved in your face, it just drives the exact opposite reaction feminists are looking for.
It also doesn’t come as genuine when you hear that all those MeToo women have accepted a $25 million dollar deal to put the case to rest.
There were many more to include, but we promised to keep this short. WeWork is our last example.
This massive unicorn began the Summer with a valuation of around $47 billion and in just a few short months dropped by almost 80% to below $5 billion today.
That’s more than bitcoin.
For those of you who don’t know, WeWork, recently rebranded as the We Company, is a landlord company for freelancers - You pay rent on your desk.
The idea was pretty great, they went hard on the sharing economy, opened as many locations as they could expecting a massive migration from traditional offices.
But people didn’t come, and those who did didn’t stick around as long as they were projecting.
And it didn’t help that while the company was putting out fires left and right while preparing for the IPO, the CEO was away in the Maldives surfing.
If you guys watched the tv show Silicon Valley you’ll definitely get the vibe WeWork was trying to put out.
At least when the founder was fired, he took a $700 million payout.
Aluxers, mistakes can happen in business and sometimes strategies will backfire.
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