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Will the iPhone Be Taken by Storm?
The Shallowest Generation
He live through all of that, even after being forced down in Normandy, almost being captured by Germans on several occasions, an almost being killed by US forces taking the town of Valognes in France.
He is too self-effacing and humble to claim any credit for anything. He merely views his participation in all of that as a required duty, unworthy of earning any special recognition.
He is right.
In fact, my father would be the first to accept blame and responsibility for not leaning the lessons of the 'Great War', and through blindness, selfishness and pure stupidity of an insular US, his generation holds accountability for the horrors of World War II.
Then, the 'Greatest Generation' stood by as clear, unmistakable threats grew on a global dimension. The 'America First' crowd insisted that the US keep out of 'foreign wars' not of our making. Japan invaded Manchuria, then China, then Burma, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, New Guinea, an of course, Singapore. The Germans meanwhile marched into Bohemia, Austria, Poland, The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, France, etc.
So, the 'Greatest Generation' and their fathers found themselves in a real mess.
What's my point?
You can cherry pick any time frame in history you want to fit a nice, neat argument that fits your narrative here. It is like all things in life; full of half-truths, lacking perspective but still useful.
The current generation has not waged a global war of mass death upon one another. How much GDP does that count for?
The current generation is also responsible for helping to spread democracy to so many countries I forgot them all. I did not see you mention the establishment of democracy in places like South Africa, Namibia, East Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Nicaragua, Albania, Bosnia, East Timor, Grenada, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ... shall I continue?
How much selfishness and lost GDP and missing savings does that account for?
Also, in being such a lost generation, who should be accountable for the generational shaking advances in pre-natal birth care, eradication of so many diseases I cannot write them all, systems that protect people from the hurricanes and disaster of a generation ago that would kill hundreds of thousands, legal systems that deliver justice to peoples that never existed 50 years ago, etc.
Look. There is a huge chunk of what you say I agree with. But you miss perspective that would add credibility to your point. You view the pre-shallowest generation world as perfect, and parse the worse of what we have wrought upon the world.
Our system has self-correcting mechanisms, brute and unpleasant as they may be, that are now kicking into gear. That is the beauty of our system and democracy ... you can run, you can hide, but in the end you will pay. There is no escape.
James, you need to collaborate with other minds to get the missing perspective you are unable or are unwilling to include. Then, you will form a more perfect option.
Thanks for your thoughts.
A proud son of exemplary father of the 'Greatest Generation'
Motorola's Train Wreck
Kevin, quit it ... stop writing. You don't have the mental equipment to be of any value to anybody.
Who Will Win the Home Entertainment Battle?
The iPhone: Apple's First Flop
The iPhone: Apple's First Flop
Will the MacWorld Expo Apple Stock Correlation Continue?
Apple: Perplexed by Ports
How Low Will Apple Go?
End of the Line for Apple's FireWire
Apple has maintained Firewire in its most important lineups ... the 15 inch and 17 inch laptops. MacBook Air has never had Firewire. It not showing up in the 13 inch laptops is reasonable, as those people don't demand it and it gives the other models more differentiation room.
The 800 Firewire is fully backward compatible with 400 with a simple connector ... no problem.
More lightweight, meaningless palaver from this guy.
Apple Fails to Deliver, and the Rally Fizzles
2. Apple has no intention at this point to join the other computer manufacturers at the profitless, marginless bottom of the pit. It does not want nor need that business at this point. When it is selling its laptops at healthy margins and gaining market share every quarter, why on earth would they get distracted on low end stuff. Stupid.
3. Apple did put one laptop in a more affordable range to keep pressure on the lower rung losers.
4. Most regular Apple analysts applauded the new lineup, concur with Apple not racing down to the bottom, and also not getting bogged down in useless Blue Ray.
5. Don't believe the Apple bullshit about margin reductions. Their laptops will not lose any margin.
This guy keeps getting it wrong about Apple.
Is Apple's New MacBook Affordable Enough?
Apple does not want to go where Dell et al are, period. They can have the 700 dollar shithole all they want. Apple is sucking out all the profit in the laptop market leaving the bones for the rest of the rabble.
The Woz Is Sounding Bearish on Apple
iPhone Sales Drastically Surpass Q4 Consensus; Apple Reaches 10m Goal
I buy what you two guys say.
Thanks
Why Doesn't Apple Give Away iPods?
This one sets a new standard. It's not even worth rebutting or answering, other than to say, buddy, go write about something else.
Perhaps pigs and lipstick?