[Discuss] [OT] Smart Phones

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On 03/04/2013 02:51 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote:
> The costs of smart phones are ridiculous.

Old timer that I am, if you had told the teenage edition of me that a 
device like my Galaxy Nexus would be available in my lifetime, I would 
have been rather wide-eyed with tons of questions about "HOW?!".

The fact that this item is cheaper than my original TRS-80 Model 1, even 
with no adjustment for inflation, is stunning.

 From that perspective, I have a hard time seeing this hardware overpriced.

Is the service overpriced?  Maybe, but when the imaginary teenage-me had 
the celltower and back haul infrastructure described, he would guessed 
there would be no way he could ever afford it.

Yet millions of Americans can afford both. To an old timer, this is 
stunning. The list of technologies necessary to make my phone work...it 
boggles my mind.

-kb