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Where is the innovation?
I look forward to receiving PCW each month and especially to reading the reviews of new equipment. I have always wondered why the fax/telephone was never marketed as a ‘must have’ for every home. It was typical of the lack of imagination in many technology driven companies.
If every home had had one, instead of merely a telephone, not only would costs (and prices) have plummeted but the communication benefits to consumers (and to the phone companies’ profits!) would have been enormous. Sending letters direct overnight would have been the norm – first class post would have been almost eliminated!
Recently I have noticed that projectors are beginning to be marketed for home use, but this doesn’t seem very widespread, and having to link the projector to a computer or TV makes life unnecessarily complicated. Again, a lack of customer-driven thinking by technology driven companies! When will one of them add the simple circuits required for TV reception into the projector? Do that and they could capture the home TV market from LCD TVs and at a low price give us all the benefits of large screen viewing.
Come on manufacturers, let's have some useful innovation!
Peter Williams
August 3, 2005 in Vent your spleen! | Permalink
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