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Smart phones are booming not so much because they're replacing laptops or desktops but because (1) Their mobile communication capabilities are essential. (2)
by kjhughes 13y ago
Smart phones are booming not so much because they're replacing laptops or desktops but because
(1) Their mobile communication capabilities are essential.
(2) Their nature is to be coupled tightly to an individual rather than be shareable.
(3) Their replacement cycles are so short.
- DSMan195276 13y agoAlso worth noting, most phone companies that I've seen push smart-phones pretty heavily because they want to get you on a data-plan, and really don't have many dumb-phones around. My family switched our cell-phone plan a few years ago, and none of us really care for smart-phones so we didn't want a data-plan and just wanted dumb-phones, and it was surprisingly hard to actually accomplish this. It's not extremely hard, but the 'default' is definitely to just give everybody smart-phones.