Phone Wars
Every time I hear someone rave about how some new cell phone is going to kill some other cell phone, I get a little twitchy. Certainly some of this feeling comes from the same place that their angst comes from: The feeling that you’re spending several hundred dollars on a phone and several thousand dollars on a plan to be locked in for a year or two using that phone and you want it to retain it’s shiny “best new phone” status. Sadly, it never does, because new phones come out every year.
It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that most of the reason we don’t see any uber-phone released - a single device that does everything very well - is because they’re simply taking their time adding the features consumers want just to make them long for the next year’s phone release. The phone manufacturers are like cocaine dealers in that respect. It’s kind of dirty. But we knew the cell companies were dirty, didn’t we?