I'm not from a generation of kids that grew up on a Mac.
I think that it's a great time to be a designer.
Your work gets destroyed by dumb people and it gets enhanced by smart people and it really doesn't have anything to do with marketing.
If people that made products didn't market them and sell them we'd have no economy and nobody would be working.
The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be
Find out what the next thing is that you can push, that you can invent, that you can be ignorant about, that you can be arrogant about, that you can fail with, and that you can be a fool with. Because in the end, that's how you grow.