Lenovo, Ashton Kutcher to Launch Line of Phones This Year

     He's just a guy with some opinions

And not even very good ones at that: http://www.businessinsider.com/ashton-kutcher-fires-back-at-...

He actually now has a colorful history of saying and doing douchey things like this.

Edit: particularly the douchey thing here was him lying and attacking woz: ("He’s a brilliant man and I respect his work, but he wasn’t available to us as a resource, so his account isn’t going to be our account because we don’t know exactly what it was. We did the best job we could. Nobody really knows what happened in the rooms [...] Woz is being paid by another company to support a different Steve Jobs film."-- an outright lie; woz got back to them, and kutcher et al. didn't like making changes at odds with their preconceived narrative of how Jobs would be presented as the main hero as both a tech guru and frontman).

"He's just a guy with some opinions."

You mean someone like Steve Jobs.

He is just a guy with some opinions and famous name which can make that new product nice advertising among some people. I guess the latter is way more important. I mean, truth be said, we all know it is advertising, so it doesn't really matter how far from being precise these comments of Lenovo representatives are.

Ashton Kutcher being a user experience designer. Pretty much sums up my thoughts on that field in general.

I played the flute in elementary school. It seems nobody listened...

You mean just like you dropped your vector calculus class.

I wonder how much input Will.i.am has as the "director of creative innovation" at Intel.

In general, are these just extended marketing schemes or do they think bringing actors/musicians in will be of any benefit to the products?

The first step to wisdom is calling things by their proper name. This is not elitism, simply stating facts. He wouldn't be called "Surgeon" if he were to advise a manufacturing company on how their tools should look nicer.

What you're witnessing in this thread isn't elitism as much as it is people who've ruined their eyes wanting to set the record clear.

Furthermore, that "Jobs" movie will probably appeal to most people because it's probably not accurate. It's probably a movie that will portray Steve Jobs as that genius who knew the future before everyone else, who've seen how Apple would be 20 years before everyone else. Anyone with more than 2 neurons knows it's a bunch of crap. You can't know how the end result will be designing a really small thing, let alone an empire.

In addition, it's "Cinema", not History nor Journalism. Want to read a good book? Read "Masters of Doom". That's how you get multiple opinions from people involved in the story, not some kind of lame movie based on the only authorized biography of a person, as brilliant as that person may be.

And lastly, come on, attacking Woz? If someone manages to get the respect of Engineers, you can be sure it's not because of his wits or Reality Distortion Field. Last time I checked, this is Hacker News. If there is any place elitism is the de facto constitution, it's in the Hackerdom.

Have a look at their Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro series notebook/tablet combos. They are currently the overall most attractive Windows notebooks in my opinion. As a past ThinkPad (720C!) owner I would have expected Lenovo to do a much worse job than they actually did and I believe their surprising commercial success underlines this too. Sure, IBM's ThinkPads were much better (with some exceptions like the X21), but it's hard to say how they would look today if IBM had kept the brand (my guess is: not better than Lenovo's).

The news is that somebody thought hiring a not that succesful an actor like Kutcher would be good for the brand.

I don't know what people's impression of him are, but he is #34 in twitter followers: http://twittercounter.com/pages/100/30