Enough progress already!
I consider myself to be fairly tech savvy, not an expert by any means, but I can get by. But it’s no wonder I can’t convince my Mom to buy a computer and get on the Internet. Things are moving so quickly, it’s very hard to keep up.
I got an iPod for Christmas and the choices totally boggled Santa’s mind and mine too. You can’t just ask for an iPod. You have to know how many hundreds or thousands of songs you want it to hold, and which of several abilities you want it to have. For example, I rejected the little Shuffle because I figured it was so small; I’d lose it in a day! And I didn’t want video capability or other doodads – just something to play my music at the gym and in the car.
This week a new Taser for women was released. But it’s not just a Taser! No, self-protection for women comes in an animal-print case with a one-gig MP3 player. Because you apparently want to hear Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive while you’re zapping an attacker!
And now Research In Motion is about to launch its answer to the Apple iPhone with a new BlackBerry. My BlackBerry can do everything I want it to — except take pictures — and it’s rapidly becoming obsolete! And it’s by no means an old model. But like I said, I can hardly keep up. I feel sorry for anyone just trying to get up to speed to join any of these markets as they rush along the information freeway!