In my opinion, the market for the auto industry is divided into two major groups, there's the group that views cars as a means to an end whether this end is an upgrade in status or getting from point A to B, and the group that actually likes to drive and buys cars for the pleasure of it.
I think even in the younger generation this division exists. Granted the latter group is a minority but it accounts for(or will account for when they can afford to) sales in the sports car sector and activity in the tuning sector.
But is this such a change from past? The words in the adverts may have changed from freedom to self driving and electric but has the landscape really changed? I don't think so. There's always a market segment that looks at what cars bring and not the cars themselves. It's up to the auto industry to figure out how to meet today's needs.
Personally though i will still line up for that Aston Martin, i am the other kind.
Raises a couple of ineresting Questions about the value of life, any life. And what authority we have(if any) to pass judgement on unborn babies as to whether their lives are 'un-livable'.
It may or may not be a conspiracy but i have seen numerous examples where big name media outlets like CNN have made glaring inaccuracies in reporting stories. For example reports on the current situation in Congo(DRC) differ from what local reporters on the ground are reporting and are often merely used as tools in a wider international political game(Push a story to put pressure on a group) http://in2eastafrica.net/simplistic-narrative-used-to-distor....
Also sometimes shocking is the content their editors deem fit for news(Was once shocked to see L.Lohan going to court as a headline story on CNN International, not CNN USA)
Again there might not be a big media club deciding which stories to cover or which agenda to push but individual media houses are clearly biased in their coverage of selected news stories. You just have to watch them long enough to notice it.
Once read about how its a bad idea to base the core of your business around someone else's platform. Once they(and their lawyers) decide to re-evaluate your relationship with them it can nearly destroy what you've built. Testament to this are the number of apps based on twitter that died when twitter decided to up their offering and cover what they were doing. How to do it well is Zynga's relationship with Facebook
The people at PadMapper are doing a good thing looking for other sources but like the author said Craiglist was/is an important source of pad listings.
This is all incredibly ridiculous. How such a practice would become company policy is beyond me. Facebook has said they'd terminate a company's facebook page if it was found to be doing this. An interesting question though, would they fire an employee for not friending or liking the company page?.. Just ridiculous
The 21st century equivalent of setting a poop-filled bag on fire on someone's porch, or something along those lines. But without actually requiring anything so taxing as getting up from the computer, going outside, and running.
The only difference is that instead of people thinking that it is a harmless prank they will send in homeland security/swat team/etc with loaded weapons.
I think even in the younger generation this division exists. Granted the latter group is a minority but it accounts for(or will account for when they can afford to) sales in the sports car sector and activity in the tuning sector.
But is this such a change from past? The words in the adverts may have changed from freedom to self driving and electric but has the landscape really changed? I don't think so. There's always a market segment that looks at what cars bring and not the cars themselves. It's up to the auto industry to figure out how to meet today's needs.
Personally though i will still line up for that Aston Martin, i am the other kind.