Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way. We hope you enjoy it!
And without further ado:
An awesome report was release this week that showed one-third of current iPhone 4 owners think their device is compatible with “4G” networks. And why wouldn’t they? The phone does have a “4” attached to it, and it being the iPhone and all I can only assume people who own this device view it as being the most advanced piece of equipment ever invented using alien technology. Plus, with just about every carrier now screaming “4G!” from the top of their well-funded advertising lungs, I sort of get the feeling that any consumer product with the number “4” in its name is “4G” enable.
(Don’t feel bad iPhone owners, 24% of BlackBerry owners also thought their devices were “4G” despite the fact the company does not produce such a model and none of their devices have a “4” in their name.)
This survey got me thinking about the current state of the mobile space and how the amount of innovation that comes out of this industry is mind bottling. Just think, there was a time not too long ago where we had devices with actual buttons, screens that were not bigger than a postage stamp, network speeds that were measured in kilobits instead of megabits and playing a game like Tetris on our device was considered pushing the edge. How did we ever survive?!?
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