The Avon lady has joined Apple. Could this mean a move to world wide

[alfredo]

markets, or a new approach to marketing?


http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2008/01/cultofmac_0109#

Apple Plotting an Avon Power Play?
Leander Kahney 01.09.08 | 12:00 AM


Avon cosmetics CEO Andrea Jung is taking a seat on the board of Apple. Why? Good question.

Whenever Steve Jobs wants Apple to get into something new, he follows the same tried-and-true modus operandi: He finds the leading expert in the field and puts that person on his company's payroll.

Before Apple opened its own chain of retail stores, the very first thing Jobs did was recruit Mickey Drexler, Gap's CEO, to sit on Apple's board as an adviser.

So when Apple announced this week that it had given a board seat to Andrea Jung, CEO of cosmetics giant Avon Products, it raised the question: What could Jobs be getting into? Could it be related to Avon's expertise in mobile commerce (think iPhone) or the cosmetics company's unique sales operation in China?

Valleywag speculated that Jung, who also sits on the board of General Electric, might be a peacemaker between Apple and NBC, which pulled out of Apple's online iTunes Store last summer. (GE owns 80 percent of NBC Universal.)

[Pierre.Suave]

1. Interesting.

all I really want from apple right now is a 3g iPhone fer cryin out loud!

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2. How good is coverage for 3g? Is it big enough to be feasible?

I bet they are going to make a push into China and other SE Asian nations.

[Pierre.Suave]

3. last I heard...

AT&T was supposed to be upgrading their network to 3g capability.

But I don't know for sure.

[alfredo]

4. I figured the lack of support/coverage was why Apple didn't go 3g.

[Pierre.Suave]

5. Everyone is 3g

except AT&T and TMobile...

Everyone else has it. Outside this country, everyone is beyond 3g already.

[alfredo]

6. Looks like they are on their way to 3g. We will know next week.