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by jauco 17y ago
I can't access the article. ( I'm not in the u.s.)
- CalmQuiet 17y agoAh... so Reuters blocks outside-U.S. visitors? Well, you didn't miss much here. He just notes that for many people cell phones replace much of functionality of many devices (citing: landline phones, watches, gps devices, cameras, iPods). Then he asks... what else? [but he has no insights to suggest]. That is worth a blog post?
- rationalbeaver 17y agoHere's the synopsis (since copying the text will likely get us all sued): Smart phones are killing, or at least threatening, lots of stuff. They already demolished PDA's (Palm is now worth only 3% of it's peak value). Landline phones and watches are feeling the squeeze. Also on the hit list are GPS gadgets, exercise monitoring equipment and odometers, iPods, cameras, and radar detectors (although I haven't seen the app for that). Other things that may soon be threatened: All the stuff in your wallet or purse like keys and credit cards. Mostly credit cards, IMO. While this kind of creative destruction creates losers (telcos with no wireless business), it also creates new winners (Apple, Google, Facebook, etc.) as well as plenty of entirely new companies.