PhilD, IMHO, US is 10 years ahead of Europe on almost all consumer technologies and usage, not to mention in the PC hardware and software and accessories. In the cellphone area, there is or was some confusion in different standards, and the use of older technologies is often intentional and for commercial and marketing reasons, especially 10 years ago. One has to remember 10 years ago cellphone was a large and heavy as a brick, very few people used cellphone those days, anywhere in the world. If you have the distribution and market share, your unique standard can protect you from foreign competitions. Not much different than the basic principles behind different width of railroad tracks in some countries, which was done for national defense when railroad was a powerful tool of war in terms of logistic and firepower.
Dennis, you step over the line when you praised the Clintons, that is messing with our domestic affairs, reason enough to invade Canada. Hillary the Hun will move anywhere just to get elected, how about you guys up there take over the Clintons? Her husband can't be US President, but he can certainly be your PM.
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12-05-2003, 03:55 PM
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