Guess What's the Fastest-Adopted Gadget of the Last 50 Years
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Guess What's the Fastest-Adopted Gadget of the Last 50 Years
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#2..that's the power of MUSIC!
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#3Depends how you define "fastest". In this case it's "percentage of households after 7 years". I think if we shortened the definition (arbitrarily) to 1 year we would get very different results (yet keep the same headline).
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#4I was guessing that's the walkman (in any form), was close.
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#5I think the title is misleading. It's not so much about the fasted adopted gadget but rather fastest adopted consumer technology.
Gadget connotes a single device --like a Kinect, iPhone or Garmin GPS.
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#6Depends how you define "fastest". In this case it's "percentage of households after 7 years". I think if we shortened the definition (arbitrarily) to 1 year we would get very different results (yet keep the same headline).
In 1 year it would be probably just the cheapest one, new stuff is usually quite expensive. 7 years is enough to become an affordable comodity.
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#7Depends how you define "fastest". In this case it's "percentage of households after 7 years". I think if we shortened the definition (arbitrarily) to 1 year we would get very different results (yet keep the same headline).
Also, it's 7 years after first introduction to market. There are lots of products which spent a long time going nowhere and then suddenly exploded once they became sufficiently refined.
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#8It's worth noting that all five of the fastest-adopted technologies were for the consumption of entertainment not communication or production of media.
IMHO, that's the biggest takeaway from this article.
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#9It's worth noting that all five of the fastest-adopted technologies were for the consumption of entertainment not communication or production of media. IMHO, that's the biggest takeaway from this article.
Definitely fits the 90:9:1 theory of consumption : curation : creation. I wonder to what extent the startup community or entrepreneurs in general represent an abnormal distribution of that ratio...
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#10I think this is apples to oranges comparison due to differences in prices. Early cell phones cost much more than boom boxes or CD players and they carried a monthly fee with them.