>Here is South Africa, we are also quite quick to adapt new technologies,
>and
>no, we don't have elephants roaming in the streets. Our cell phone networks
>are some of the best, for instance. I got into minidiscs two years ago,
Yeah, for some reason it's a popular misconception that Canada is a country
built in a glacier, or that we're in a perpetual state of winter. :) Of
course if you go north enough you'd be correct. :) But the major cities are
just that. Major cities. No igloos, no dogsleds, and we have as normal
seasons as the US has. :)
>before mp3 players got real big. Portable minidisc recorders were then
>going
>for about R3500 (R8 to the us dollar). Then the prices dropped quite a bit.
>I paid the same for my recorder as you would in the UK. Now suddenly the
>prices have rocketed to R4500 for a Sony Mz-R900 (that is like $562),
Yeah, my MZ-R900 cost me about $550 CAN, but I also managed to talk the guy
down from like 575.
It's not KILLING the market, but I do think it's making it less appealing to
people who want to get in on it and don't have that much to spend. After
all, a half a grand is a lot of money to spend on a recording/playback
device. (money well spent in my opinion, but that's just me :) ).
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