--- Chris Stoddart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes! I think this is pretty likely. Here in the UK > mobile phones went > through a huge expansion as everyone had to get one. > Shares went up, > people got rich. Somehow it came as a huge shock to > the phone companies > when saturation was reached and their infinite sales > predictions just > died. Now the high street phone shops have halved in > number - still too > many of them selling the flashing light add-ons > though :-) >
Interesting analogy! What are phones doing to keep people buying? Becoming impossibly small, and overladen with useless features. But, I guess if you're 16, and everyone else in school has a postage stamp sized phone that has a video camera and plays 300 different games, and sends text messages, you've got to have one too, right? Judging by what you're saying, even this overkill useless technology isn't making enough people buy phones to keep a lot of businesses afloat. At some point, folks were bound to say, "I don't want my phone to get smaller, I don't need more features, I just need to call the spouse on the way home to see if we need a bag of potatoes, dammit!" Same thing with cameras, I guess. There are only so many things you can do to make people think they'll be able to take better pictures, and they get wise, eh? Focus, Shutter Speed and Aperture. That's all you need to adjust to get a photo, right? cheers, frank ===== "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
