When Apple created the iPhone in 2007 it didn't drive growth, did it?
Given that the economy was in the process of hitting one of the worst economic downturns since the Great Depression, I'd say it didn't do much for it.
How much demand was there for smartphones in 2006 vs five years later?
You'd have to ask Blackberry. Seems to me they were doing pretty well, pre-iPhone...
I realize you are an Apple fanboy, but smartphones did exist prior to the iPhone.
Apple, for all of its success because of its mindless fanboys, is but a small fraction of the US economy. Which is still mainly driven by automobiles, houses, washing machines, etc.
Fast food was not innovative in 1964. Look up carhop.
The first carhops appeared in 1921 when automobiles were beginning to be a common sight in Dallas, Texas. Two men, a businessman named J.G. Kirby and a physician named R.W. Jackson, decided to take advantage of the fact that many people owned cars and more were coming. They realized that many of the drivers would rather not get out of their cars to eat. They opened a restaurant called the Pig Stand, which had male carhops from its inception. The A&W corporate website actually claims to have opened the first carhop restaurant in 1923, just two years after the Pig Stand initiated carhops.
en.wikipedia.org
Someone who apparently thinks the bulk of our economy is gadgets and fast food was innovative in 1964 has no business passing judgement on the cluefullness of someone else. |
