Waiting for Products to Arrive
23rd August 2007
Pogue has some good points to make about products that have demand but no supply. Here are two I especially like:
The great cellphone carrier. When the iPhone came out, everybody grumbled and moaned about how Apple had chosen AT&T as its exclusive carrier. I grumbled along with them—and then it hit me: Whom wouldn’t people have grumbled about?
The touch-tone alarm clock. The modern clock radio can play CDs, wake up two people at different times, and even beam the current time onto the ceiling. So why do we have to set the time using the same controls cavemen used in the Stone Age?