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iPhone: iHate you 'cause iWant you
Today's technology innovations are tomorrow's old news
Kevin Rand
Issue date: 9/12/07 Section: Opinion
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It's too bad this dilemma will probably never end. As consumers of new technology, we will often have to give in and buy that over-priced hybrid car or that BluRay disc player if we want to keep up.
If.
I have a 19-inch Sony LCD flatscreen TV in my bedroom I bought from that electronic store with the big blue-and-yellow sign about 18 months ago for $700.
I can go to that other big warehouse store - the one beginning with "Cost," ending with "co" -and buy a similar product today for $400. I should mention that the Sony I bought was a floor model. A brand new one would have hurt me $300 more.
And the moral of the story is …
I don't know.
We can only try to spend our money as wisely as possible. With all the new, cool stuff that will continue to come out, it's a lot more economical to be envious of those in debt than it is to be of those who spend wisely. I'm beginning to sound like my mother.
So save your money, kids.
When that electronics-store salesman tells you that financing your new pocket entertainment system will only cost you a cup of coffee a day for the next three years, tell him he's right.
That cup of coffee is now $4 a day, and I don't think Starbucks has upgraded from version 1.0 of the bean.
If.
I have a 19-inch Sony LCD flatscreen TV in my bedroom I bought from that electronic store with the big blue-and-yellow sign about 18 months ago for $700.
I can go to that other big warehouse store - the one beginning with "Cost," ending with "co" -and buy a similar product today for $400. I should mention that the Sony I bought was a floor model. A brand new one would have hurt me $300 more.
And the moral of the story is …
I don't know.
We can only try to spend our money as wisely as possible. With all the new, cool stuff that will continue to come out, it's a lot more economical to be envious of those in debt than it is to be of those who spend wisely. I'm beginning to sound like my mother.
So save your money, kids.
When that electronics-store salesman tells you that financing your new pocket entertainment system will only cost you a cup of coffee a day for the next three years, tell him he's right.
That cup of coffee is now $4 a day, and I don't think Starbucks has upgraded from version 1.0 of the bean.
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