When one thinks of Apple and their products, you think of revolutionary products like the iPod, iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, Macs and airpods. You probably don’t think about the Homepod, but hey everyone can’t bat 1000 right? Given Apple’s record of successful products, we can forgive them for the occasional flub. Before this record streak […]
Month: January 2020
Ford vs. Humanity
In the early 1970s the American auto industry was facing stiff competition from the Volkswagen Beetle (VW) and smaller Japanese imports from Toyota and Datsun. Ford’s then President Lee Iacocca, argued that the company needed a low-priced car in a hurry to compete with Volkswagen and the Japanese imports. Iacocca argued that those competitors would […]
World War 3?
Reading Time: 4 minutes There is plenty of speculation going on in the world right now that Donald Trump has or will start World War III. The events of the past few weeks, i.e., Trump ordering the assassination of Iranian general Soleimani has done nothing but added fuel to this line of thinking. The thing […]
A Lesson from the Ice Queen
My apologies to those who clicked on this article, thinking it will be about Elsa from Frozen, though there is an Anna in this story. This article is about Anna Ivanovna, the real life ice queen. Anna was born in 1693, the daughter of czar Ivan V. Ivan V was co-ruler of Russia, along with his younger […]
