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Steve Jobs is disappointed in you. Maybe he always will be. No matter how many iMacs, iPads and iPhones fill your home, and it’s all because you’re not one of these people.

Meet Apple’s secret family. They’re the finely honed faces of Apple’s marketing drive. Used to humanise Apple products, they’re seemingly fictional, and completely perfect in every way. Except, well, they’re not.

After consulting branding and social media experts, and even a prominent psychologist, we’ve uncovered a few chinks in the armour of Apple’s marketing machine. Read on, meet the family, and we’ll show how they highlight weaknesses in Cupertino’s otherwise faultless promotional prowess.

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Absence makes the heart grow stronger, and in the case of the Apple Store, the sight of that cheerful Post-It note sends hearts racing. But it’s not pure chance, or technical problems, that keep the Post-It in place, it’s something much smarter.

Pick an Apple launch, any Apple launch, and you can guarantee it’ll be accompanied by a sizeable chunk of downtime for the Apple Store, slap bang in the middle of trading hours. What should be classified as commercial suicide for Apple is, in fact, one of the most powerful marketing tools in the world. Read on to find out how.

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Microsoft has drawn inspiration from the likes of Tupperware, Avon and Ann Summers in a fresh bid to boost the Xbox 360’s family-friendly image. The console maker has recently hired around 1,000 women from a broad range of backgrounds to demo the console and its Xbox LIVE service to their friends and family, and generally spread the word to those demographics that are still belligerently buying Wiis.

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