The Skinny Wars Begin 🥦
This Week in Review☕️ : Nike sues Lululemon | Disneyland heads to the Metaverse | Cinnamon glaze Churros | Digital Air Jordans | Tim Cook celebrates decade at Apple | Omicron threatens global recovery
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Quick Bites:
Sportswear 👟 : And the fitness wars begin.
Nike sued Lululemon last week, alleging its Mirror home gym and mobile app
infringed several of its patents.
Just Sue It ✔️
Specifically, the technology that allows users to compete with other users and record their performance.
Background💡: Lululemon bought Mirror for $500mn in 2020 as customers turned to at-home exercise to maintain their fitness.
No sh*t! All those quarantine bakers eroded our waistlines one banana bread a time.. Had to sweat it out 🙏
Buying Mirror gave Lululemon the muscle to compete with Peloton, Hydrow and Tonal, CNBC reports.
Lululemon's response to the lawsuit:
“The patents in question are overly broad and invalid. We are confident in our position and look forward to defending it in court.”
Our Thoughts💡: This comes at a time when Lululemon is embroiled in a lawsuit against Peloton, accusing it of selling "copycat products."
Tbh, we all knew Peloton, especially, is gonna be a very, very overpriced clothing hangar 30 seconds into a vaccine.
And the truth is as soon as Peloton realized it, they began to copy and copy.. and copy some more.
America, we've seen this movie before👋
Tech 🐭 : Another exciting development in the metaverse!
Disney is the latest company creating a whole new, immersive "Virtual World" at Disneyland.
Awesome, there's nowhere we feel quite as home as in the Magic Kingdom💫
This will enable users to "experience a 3D world without any glasses, goggles or digital devices"
While concepts like the "Metaverse" and "NFTs" have taken the internet by storm, mainly due to Facebook’s rebrand to Meta, it's exciting to see the moves big brands are taking towards virtual technology:
💡Nike launching digital Air Jordans (We’re all for this, def don't wanna get caught in the metaverse with Reebok on)
💡Budweiser plans NFT drop
💡McDonalds giveaway of McRib NFTs for the sandwich's 40th anniversary
💡Videogame maker Roblox is already using the metaverse concept in videogames
Our Thoughts💡: Not sure how we feel about Disney heading to the metaverse tbh.
We remember being so darned happy at Disneyland as kids. Perhaps because Mickey Mouse was suddenly real.. OR because we had the best churros of our life there🍫
Warm, cinnamon bolts of perfection dipped in sugary glaze.. not to mention the perfect excuse to ghost your folks for a good half-hour! 😋
Hmm.. don't think the virtual world gonna cut it for us 🙈
Finance 💰 : Apple CEO Tim Cook earned almost $100mn in compensation last year; a 500% jump from the previous year.
Cook's salary:
💡2021: $98.7mn
💡2020: $14.8mn
Well, he does lead a company thats grown $700mn PER DAY in Tim Cook's 10 years as CEO! (yes, we know it sounds crazy but its 100% true! Look it up 📲 )
Apple's valuation hit an all-time high of $3 trillion last week- primarily due to the launch of 5G phones and pandemic-fueled WFH which led to people splurging on laptops and iPads, WSJ reports.
Breaking News💡: Apple becomes first $3 trillion company by selling billions of the same phone each year
Same same but different🤷🏻♀️
Our Thoughts💡: People will always hate but Satya Nadella and Tim Cook have proven to be the 2 most successful non-founder CEOs:
💡Microsoft's market cap has grown $805mn per day since Nadella became CEO in 2014
💡Apple's market cap has grown $700mn per day since Cook became CEO in 2011. (Enough so that Warren Buffet made over $770mn in dividends alone from Apple stock in 2021!)
Numbers.don't.lie. 📈
Pandemic 🦠 : Omicron 'tsunami' as quarter of countries across the globe report record infections, The Telegraph reports.
Vaccines working then?! 💉
46 out of 191 countries- including the UK, France and Argentina have seen cases jump +70% in the last week alone.
Meanwhile, the CDC shortened Covid-19 isolation requirement to 5 days from 10 days.
Which also means the isolation requirement is "Whatever the f** your boss wants"
As long as you isolate for 15 mins after a 6-hour shift and for 30 mins after a 10-hour shift, you're fine 👋
According to Telegraph Global Health, in countries with high immunity, hospitals are coping, but in countries like the US and India, there are signs that the healthcare system could be overwhelmed.
Our Thoughts💡: CDC officials shortened isolation citing imaginary "science" while Joe Biden confessed there is "no federal solution" to Covid-19.
On the same day. At the same time.
Is there anyone, absolutely anyone, that believes this virus isn't the greatest con in the history of mankind?
Quicker Bites:
North Korea launches second suspected missile in less than a week.
India reports a rise in Omicron cases.
In a first, a man receives a heart from a genetically altered pig, NY Times.
Novak Djokovic's wins appeal to stay in Australia.
Global Covid cases hit record high last week, WHO says.
Atleast 164 people killed in unrest in Kazakhstan.
Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage: 'I've had stares my whole life.'
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