Bill,
I enjoyed your response and am glad to hear you're making a good living with that Powerbase. I think we appear to be pretty close on this. I too use a Power box, but would be interested in the details of the CD-ROM trouble. I've been using a PowerCenter Pro 210 and all has been extremely well. I also have seen a possible ultimate destination for Apple as a software company ever since they decided to license. But I wouldn't count them out just yet.
Regarding the "Detroit" analogy, it's just that in my lifetime, I've seen the entire entertainment electonics hardware industry, as well as, a large portion of the auto industry fall to superior Japanese products. In the late 50's through the 60's and early 70's, the same lack of concern existed about Japanese TVs, HiFi components and automobiles. For most of that period, the Japanese didn't even market such items in the U.S., and what rudimentery electronics they did manufacture, were considered by Americans to be a joke. I only mention this because I recall that our attitude was one of complasence and arrogance. We've seen what happened.
Having been a programmer myself, I've always felt that the one area where we've really had a cultural advantage on the Japanese was software creation. I couldn't agree more that few interesting titles have come out of Asia. But the same kind of boneheaded arrogance that proclaimed we would never loose the television and auto markets, etc and as a result quit focusing on innovation and quality, seems all too familiar when I hear the common proclamation of Window's superiority to the MacOS. We've often, through History, led the World with great products, only to drop the ball. If we drop this ball, we'll be down to computing hardware, which is under attack, and currently manufactured in Asia and Indonesia(is that considered Asia?), which would leave aerospace/military hardware, entertainment, biotech and agriculture. I figure it'll be tough to loose agriculture and I pray to God we don't loose entertainment.
I may just be gun shy about this, and I certainly hope you're right.
Regards,
Scott |
