[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[BCS]

Hello Nick,

> "Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message
> news:i63k4d$29qm$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 
>> "Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message
>> news:i63jvb$29fu$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> 
>>> "BCS" <none at anon.com> wrote in message
>>> news:a6268ff1b9068cd1bc36b696570 at news.digitalmars.com...
>>> 
>>>> Aside from a memeory card, name one things you've ever known
>>>> someone else to want to add to a phone?
>>>> 
>>> - Headphone jack
>>> - Audio line-input
>>> - User's choice of portable Keyboard
>>> - TV Out (for picture/video-viewing, and there's a million different
>>> kinds of TV-Out these days)
>>> - GPS
>>> - Back before built-in cameras became common, I could have said
>>> "camera".
>>> All just off the top of my head, there's probably others.
>>> 
>> And domain-specific things, like various kinds of sensors for
>> in-field scientific data gathering, or barcode scanning, for
>> instance.
>> 
> *Alternate* types of memory card...
> 

Consumer choice (in form factors) is a good thing for new markets, but at 
some point it just drive up prices and causes compatibility problems. At 
some point it's cheaper to just pick a good enough standard and make it a 
commodity.


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