{"id":737,"date":"2006-09-21T02:40:39","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T09:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.computerworld.com:\/\/297f80c695cdc3d51dec495b59bdf6c4"},"modified":"2006-09-21T02:40:39","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T09:40:39","slug":"making-gadgets-continually-appealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"Making gadgets continually appealing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest problems for the current crop of gadgets, as outlined in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1226058,00.html\">The Digital Camera Fights for Survival<\/a>, is that to keep people buying the gadgets, you have to continue giving people reasons to do so. <\/p>\n<p>For example, I've been using my mobile phone for four years - why didn't I upgrade? Because I couldn't see a reason to do so. Even now, the only reason I upgraded was because my original phone was going wrong. Hardly a compelling reason for everybody. The same is true of Digital Cameras. My old one was 3 years old before I replaced it recently, and I can't see me changing it any time soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=rZHUNk\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=rZHUNk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/24977007\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest problems for the current crop of gadgets, as outlined in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1226058,00.html\">The Digital Camera Fights for Survival<\/a>, is that to keep people buying the gadgets, you have to continue giving people reasons to do so. <\/p>\n<p>For example, I&#8217;ve been using my mobile phone for four years &#8211; why didn&#8217;t I upgrade? Because I couldn&#8217;t see a reason to do so. Even now, the only reason I upgraded was because my original phone was going wrong. Hardly a compelling reason for everybody. The same is true of Digital Cameras. My old one was 3 years old before I replaced it recently, and I can&#8217;t see me changing it any time soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=rZHUNk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=rZHUNk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/24977007\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}