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Not talking about any specific gadget here, as there are a lot of them that are included in this gripe, but obviously the Iphone is one of them.
It irritates me more and more how any new gadget is always hyped as the [previous hot gadget] killer, is hardly ever produced in quantites that will let you stroll into a shop and just buy one, and in the case of most new phones even when you do they're seemingly always locked into one carrier or another.
It's not just phones though. The Nintendo Wii is another good example - at least here in the UK. The balance board that goes with the console has been intermittently impossible to get for about a year. What's that about - Can it be anything but a deliberate control of supply and demand? What manufacturer can't ramp up production given 12 months notice that people will want a truckload of their gear for Christmas.
I was just looking at the BBC, who reported that Palm have announced their latest, the Pre. It will be available in the Spring in the US, tied to Sprint. They have declined to say when it'll be available in other countries.
Yaaaawn . . . so shall I be queueing outside a Vodaphone shop for 8 hours when they finally deign to grace us with about a quarter of the number they expect to sell, or shall I wait till they're sitting on the shelves at Carphone warehouse for £99, and the next must have geegaw has been announced for 'some time before October 2011'?
On the other hand, it seems to have backfired on Blackberry. They let a tiny trickle of those storm things onto the market after hyping the nuts off of them, and they turned out to be a pile of doo-doo. For everyine that bought one, there must be 10 people that didn't because they couldn't, and now won't bother.
Think I'll stick with my 3 year old Blackberry curve for now.
It irritates me more and more how any new gadget is always hyped as the [previous hot gadget] killer, is hardly ever produced in quantites that will let you stroll into a shop and just buy one, and in the case of most new phones even when you do they're seemingly always locked into one carrier or another.
It's not just phones though. The Nintendo Wii is another good example - at least here in the UK. The balance board that goes with the console has been intermittently impossible to get for about a year. What's that about - Can it be anything but a deliberate control of supply and demand? What manufacturer can't ramp up production given 12 months notice that people will want a truckload of their gear for Christmas.
I was just looking at the BBC, who reported that Palm have announced their latest, the Pre. It will be available in the Spring in the US, tied to Sprint. They have declined to say when it'll be available in other countries.
Yaaaawn . . . so shall I be queueing outside a Vodaphone shop for 8 hours when they finally deign to grace us with about a quarter of the number they expect to sell, or shall I wait till they're sitting on the shelves at Carphone warehouse for £99, and the next must have geegaw has been announced for 'some time before October 2011'?
On the other hand, it seems to have backfired on Blackberry. They let a tiny trickle of those storm things onto the market after hyping the nuts off of them, and they turned out to be a pile of doo-doo. For everyine that bought one, there must be 10 people that didn't because they couldn't, and now won't bother.
Think I'll stick with my 3 year old Blackberry curve for now.