A recent Smart Money article on AOL examined five gadgets that it said consumers should refrain from buying right now. Normally, early adopters and consumer-electronics junkies would be the affected parties here, but the article's warnings carry significant investing implications, since all of the appliances it singled out have ties to popular, publicly traded companies.
1. iPhone
2. OLED TVs
3. Blu-ray
4. Digital readers
5. Windows Vista
CCG writes - "I completed planetarian: Snow Globe in around 90 minutes. Thankfully, the price is very reasonable, and it can only go lower if they offer it on sale, making it an entirely fair value. Given the relatively short runtime and low price, it's a nice companion for fans of planetarian HD. I'm also pleased to say that the moral concerns are fairly light as well. If you enjoyed planetarian, then I'd say that planetarian: Snow Globe is worth your time. While you could probably play this one first if you must, I would probably recommend reading planetarian HD before this title."
In this case, it's quantity over quality.
The Outerhaven writes: Split/Second was the explosive arcade racing game that outshone Ridge Racer and Burnout. That is, until Disney shut it all down before a sequel could happen.
I can only speak about BD. Blu-ray is costly but it is a smart investment though.
It's right about those 5 things.
1. The iPhone will have a new generation coming out soon that will have more features.. So why buy one now and have to spend more money to get the new version.
Plus there's also many other companies working to make there devices more sexy looking like the iPhone. (Phones have had features the iPhone has for a long time now..and touch screens.. iPhone isn't innovative.. It just has a nice design and is over hyped.)
2. OLED screens. OLED manufacturing is still at a costly stage. But in the coming years it is expected to drop exponentially.
3. Blue-ray is also very costly right now. The price will drop..alot.
4. meh
5. Well, I'm pretty sure most people have there own views on Vista. And many will say to hold out until Windows 7 comes out.
Why? Well it will burn down your house! :D
darn it i have 3 out of 5 on the list :(
i don't get it..
how can Vista be one of the top 5 'gadgets'.. vista is first of all too crap to be in the top 5 (i think) and its not even a gadgets, it just a piece of software which doesn't have to be expensive *coughtorrentcoughrapidshareco ugh*