Overhype

Overhype

by Mike Masnick




Playing Down The Tech Specs

from the it's-about-time... dept

One good thing to come out CeBit appears to be that many of the gadget makers are doing their best to (finally!) stop talking about the technology specs of the gadgets they're pushing and start focusing on the actual benefits to users. Most users don't really care about things like CDMA/GPRS/3G/MMS/whatever. They just want a device that does what they want it to do. Hopefully, companies are starting to realize this.

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  1. Mar 19th, 2004 @ 5:40pm

    Cyclical

    by dorpus

    When large numbers of people buy a simple, standard device, then the geek snobs will scoff at the "fag" machines. The more macho consumers will buy the more complicated products with useless bells and whistles, repeating the cycle.

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  2. Mar 22nd, 2004 @ 6:43am

    Re: Cyclical

    by Anonymous Coward


    dorpus,

    i know you want to touch my monkey.
    go on, you can pet it.

    thats nice.
    now put your mouth around it.

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