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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 'Good Enough Technology' Means Cheap and Easy Always Wins]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/09/07/good-enough-technology-cheap-and-easy-always-wins/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/09/07/good-enough-technology-cheap-and-easy-always-wins/</guid><description><![CDATA[Bronze, Silver, Gold.  There's a difference.  If cheap is the low end, then it shouldn't be so hard for consumers to find valuable difference between the low end and the expensive high end.  If 99-cent MP3's are the new gold, then make MP2's for 79-cents, raise the price of MP3's to $1.29 and help stop articles from being written that make people feel guilty for buying affordable products they like.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[55TB.wordpress.com]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 7th 2009 10:39AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 'Good Enough Technology' Means Cheap and Easy Always Wins]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/09/07/good-enough-technology-cheap-and-easy-always-wins/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/09/07/good-enough-technology-cheap-and-easy-always-wins/</guid><description><![CDATA[MP2s?  Are you a complete idiot or something?  Seriously, if you're going to make an argument like that, at least know what you're talking about and not ass-pull.  It makes you and your obviously-displayed blog a little more enticing.  Just a little though.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[???]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 7th 2009 3:52PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 'Good Enough Technology' Means Cheap and Easy Always Wins]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/09/07/good-enough-technology-cheap-and-easy-always-wins/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/09/07/good-enough-technology-cheap-and-easy-always-wins/</guid><description><![CDATA[Not being rich is one reason I cut corners. The other reason is everything new is supposedly fantastic. the CD better than the album, Plasma and LCD better than the analog TVs, But they are not. The new LCD and plasmas have all types of distortions regular TVs haven't had since the 70s. DVD recorders aren't as flexible or reliable as VHS recorders,and Cd's ware out as fast as albums. Remember when the DVD was supposed to be as good as it can get for movies now they say they are inferior to blu ray which is of course perfect; until the next thing comes along.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[marshall]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 7th 2009 10:55AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 'Good Enough Technology' Means Cheap and Easy Always Wins]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/09/07/good-enough-technology-cheap-and-easy-always-wins/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/09/07/good-enough-technology-cheap-and-easy-always-wins/</guid><description><![CDATA[Clayton Christensen wrote this concept up in The Innovator's Dilemma.  The great high tech revolution, according to him and many others, was created by simpler and cheaper.<br>Mini Computer v. Mainframe; PC v. Mini; solar calulator v. HP; flash drive v. backup hard drives; cars that go 6000 miles or more between oil changes; cars that last 100,000+ miles v. 40,000 being a kind of limit.  Email v. mail.  And on and on it goes.<br><br>Peter Drucker added that things getting smaller, the nano phenomenon, is what boosted world trade.  Mfg sales in the US have been going up for a long time; workers required are not.  This led to 6.6% productivity boost last Q, with a labor drop off.  Unheard of previously.<br><br>This trend has been going on for a long time.   ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[T]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 7th 2009 3:33PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
