Comments on: At Apple, thin is in--sometimes too much

Newsweek's Steven Levy finds his MacBook Air disappeared somewhere without a trace. I had the same thing happen with my iPod Touch.

[johnnysocko]

Where's Personal Responsibility???

Seems like young people of today don't appreciate what they have. My grandfather owned TWO wristwatches in his life, he bought good quality and took care of them, we now have one of them, still works. I own two 50+ year old rifles, probably will pass them on to my son.

My nephew, 10, has been given toys and games like I've never seen, and he just schleps them into a pile, or worse, treats them so bad they don't even work shortly thereafter.

When I was growing up, I rarely recieved gifts, always was given $$$, and I bought what I wanted when I saved up enough. Taught me to appreciate what I own. Never had an allowance (parents got me a paper route, started working at 10). I maintain my cars, motorcylcle, etc. because I know what it took to buy them. And except for my house and car, I pay CASH for everything.

Perhaps the ease of credit cards permits people not to appreciate what they have, if something happens, just buy another one, and pay for it over a year or so.

Or maybe people are just getting dumber, I don't know.

The "Posts" have been better than the actual article, thanks all.

[johnnysocko]

Solution here....

Carry a boombox if you're to inept to keep track of your belongings, or better yet, store your ipod in your stashbox, nyaaaaa!

[Moodie-1]

The best solutions

I foresaw this problem many years ago when cheap miniaturized Japanese products began flooding U.S. markets. Using our current technology the only two workable solutions to this increasingly-common problem are: (1) make these things cheaply enough to be considered disposable (and also allow them to be memory-wiped from the internet in case they're lost) or (2) design them to be waterproof and worn on the user's wrist (like a wristwatch). This would allow cellphones to reliably use only vibrating alerts and eliminate the use of annoying and controversial audible ringtones.