Pages

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Risks of Buying Technology Products Too Early

By Sarah Skovachez

People are always curious about new products which are impressively advertised to have perfect and useful functions. Some people rush into tech stores to purchase them. For some others, being the first person who owns the first product of new tech is so exciting. Therefore, they try to buy these new products even with an expensive price. However, early products of new technologies are usually not very good as they’ve thought. Although they are expensive at the time of its arrival, they may have mistakes and quickly become dirt-cheap. Windows Me (2000), RIM BlackBerry 5810 (2002), Blu-ray Players 1.0 (2007), Original Apple iPhone (2007) and so on can improve this.
After Microsoft’s Windows Me operating system was launched in September 2000, users know that it was a buggy and unreliable.

Windows Me (2000)

Windows Me (2000)


Blu-ray players released after October 2007 was powered with on-board storage. They can even connect to the Internet meanwhile earlier models couldn’t gain those functions.
Blu-ray Players 1.0 (2007)
Blu-ray Players 1.0 (2007)


Just two months after Apple introduced the first iPhone, the price of the 8GB model went down from $599 to $399 and the 4GB version was discontinued. In order to appeal angry customers, Apple had to give each of them $100 store credit.
Original Apple iPhone (2007)
Original Apple iPhone (2007)


The BlackBerry 5810 lacked a speaker and microphone, so people had to use a wired earpiece for voice calls. Just three months after the launch of this product, a trio of new models with no earpiece requirement was released.

RIM BlackBerry 5810 (2002)

RIM BlackBerry 5810 (2002)


The Microsoft Xbox 360, released in 2007, was not only expensive video game console but also made the mistake of “Red Ring of Death”. It took Microsoft over $1 billion to fix this overheating console and extend user’s warranties to three years.


Original Microsoft Xbox 360 (2007)
Original Microsoft Xbox 360 (2007)



About the Author:
I am a web developer. I love technology and have a passion of writing articles about technology news, especially new products.

Articles Source: Risks of Buying Technology Products Too Early