As consumers do we get held back on technology?

Smithy said:
I find it amazing how some people are blissfuly unaware of the car fuel economy technology advances being sabotaged by oil companies. In that sense, yes we are directly being refused technology that already exists.

Imagine what a loss oil companies would endure if we were all driving around in 300 MPG cars. Suffice it to say, oil companies will do whatever they can to shutdown research and production of these technologically advanced cars.
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OcUK unfortunately do not do conspiracy theories or anything vaguely resembling one. Before you know it, you'll have tinfoil hats stapled to peoples heads with a communal shower of urine raining down on you. :o

Otherwise, yeah, I totally agree with you. :)
 
Certain technologies are waaaay behind. I think I once heard that they had > 1Ghz cpus back in the early 90s. No sauce though :S

Absolutely prolonged for business needs, and thus in some ways, all markets work as a cartel, companies don't try too hard to out compete each other, because they'd all suffer in the long run.
 
hmm well to be fair they plan a life cycle which they will extend as necessary until either market stagnation/saturation.

of course they will produce whatever they can for the cheapest amount to sell x amount of volume to generate x amount of margin to help co fund the development of the sucessor to that product.

But just because they have created, or designed its sucessor does not mean that they should simply switch manufacturing to it instead of the older product?

what if the market does not want/cannot afford to pay for the old product, or if there is still lots of stock and margin opportunity for the old product?

so yes some products can get held back, but not always because they dont "want" you to have the technology, but because of the implications of them selling it.
 
The implications of the OLPC are going to be huge. They reckon that because everyone will want a laptop for $100 for their kid, laptop prices will tumble like no-one's business...
 
free laptops will be the next big driver on data contract,

mpbiles phones are probably worth more than a laptop these days and they come for free, soon with HS and 3GPRS, we have already seen 1 major high street retailer go down this path.
 
and they have like quantum computers - its not that they dont want you to have it but why would they actively market a PC which will cost more than your average lifetime earning potential?

they simply wouldnt get enough customers to support it..
 
Just look at the current technology in Korea compared to the current technology in europe / USA to answer that question.
 
Sure i read somewhere a couple of years back that the UK was 10-15 years behind the US, and they were 10-15 years behind Japan in technology to the consumer.
 
flasher said:
Sure i read somewhere a couple of years back that the UK was 10-15 years behind the US, and they were 10-15 years behind Japan in technology to the consumer.
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Thats certainly not the case with mobile phones, american phones suck. I would say the us and uk are the same with japan about 2-3 years ahead.
 
Energize said:
Thats certainly not the case with mobile phones, american phones suck. I would say the us and uk are the same with japan about 2-3 years ahead.
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One thing Ive noticed when watching 24 on the telly, is that their mobile phones still have an aerial that you pull up. The UK phones now, tend not to have any aerial that requires you to tug at it.
 
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