1 edit | People Never Learn Version 1.0 of any product is always the buggiest, the one with the least features, and the most expensive. Today, a $19.95 CD player has more features and works better than the first $1000 CD Player. A PC that you might find in the trash has more power than the first IBM PC that only had two 5 1/4 floppy drives, 250KB of memory, a monochrome display adapter and sold for $2700 in 1984. The logic is that the manufacturer wants to recoup most of its investment in the product during the first wave of sales. The iPhone is no exception: it only works with one and the worst company in the wireless telephone business; it is severely limited in features; it only works with iTune software; no way that you can change the batteries when they die except to send it to Apple where they will do it for a fee ; only 8 gigs in the most expensive model, come on! And both models cost $500 and $600 respectively!
But some people are so manipulated that they think the world would be coming to an end if they don't have the product NOW and you see these poor souls standing in line since 4AM to buy an expensive retarded product. Things like these keep reminding me of what an advertiser exec once told me: "American consumers have a mind like that of a 13 y.o boy and we just love it!" |
