With the Internet you get updates of new product launches, new services and happenings as quickly as they occur. You're overwhelmed with the amount of information you receive on a daily basis but then, you also get to be in the know.
I say this all in the best of ways since this has given the common internet user the capability to know what new products/services are available, along with the many other alternates for it.
For example, come the iPhone, the world's first touch-screen phone (of it's kind, style, etc.), and it seemed like Apple is the only one doing it and they made it appear as if theyre the first ones to do so. Now I don't mean to say that they misled people into believing that touch-screen smartphones never existed before the iPhone, I mean that the way they created the complete product, it's UI, the applications, it was just the RIGHT way and the way it should've always been done.
But then we saw instant pop-ups of products from LG, iMate, HTC, Samsung which were acting the same way. This sort of made iPhone seem like just another one of the many products of similar nature out there (broadly speaking).
Now comes Michael Arrington speaking of making the "Crunchpad" and there's a long hype about it being made, and it's the first of it's kind etc.
Enter, the iPAD. The "crunchpad" now the JooJoo, was to be the first of its kind and then comes the Apple with their device, then there's there's the WePad (no joke, serious, check it out) from Germany, and there are actually 7 other iPad alternatives out there!
Microsoft Courier, their "secret tablet" doesn't seem so secret when you see that there's already another device, the enTourage eDGe readily available in the market so freakishly similar to it, that one wonders if Microsoft just one-upped this device.
Makes one wonder if all these companies sit down and decide on what they'll make, how their devices should be different from each other, the dates of when they're available and what segments of the market each one would like to cater to.
With such immense competition in the market, and everything thing that was "never done before" being re-done by multiple companies so fast, one has to wonder what sort of cycle these new products are going through.
One day you purchase a product, only to be disappointed by seeing a newer, better version by a different company being launched a few weeks later.
Maybe thats the trick, keep em hungry and wanting more! Infact that is the trick isnt it?
Let see what other "never-been-done-before" and "secret" devices come out next.
Faizan A. Laghari is a technopreneur with 6+ years of management experience in the business world, and an overall close to a decade of in-the-field experience of the web industry.
