Wednesday, June 15, 2016

End Of Apple Man...But Where's Dr Dre?

BuzzFeed:
But the effervescent demo of Apple Music by the charismatic Bozoma Saint John — a black woman who looked and acted nothing like the typical Apple Men onstage before her and who in her opening remarks mentioned being a mother — felt like a breath of fresh air signaling that perhaps the winds are changing. There were other signals too. In the video segment cheering on developers using Apple’s Swift programming language, the video ended with a black woman joyfully expounding how awesome coding was — certainly not the stereotype of a coder, and not totally reflective of the crowd there watching the video. At another Apple event in March, another black female Apple executive, Lisa Jackson, took the stage to talk about Apple’s environmental efforts.
I'm not going to shit on the Black women I'm just going to point out that among the Apple Men, Dr. Dre, who's company was swallowed up by Apple hasn't been seen. Don't worry though, we all know about The Rape Over: