I think one of the first zip drives (pen drives) I had could only hold 128 megabytes of data on it. And no doubt it cost a heap. My daughter has just been telling me that a few years back she bought a 1 gb drive for a friend which cost $NZ80 at the time. Now they're selling 4gb drives for two for $20. All the kids are getting them for school - and no doubt losing them as fast as they acquire them.
I've just been looking at a site that sells Blackberry bolds for $US99.99, which at today's exchange rate is a ridiculous $NZ129.75. Buying a Blackberry for $130 is crazy; only a short while ago they in the region of $700-800.
These kind of prices rather reduce the exclusiveness of Blackberries - it doesn't seem long ago that characters in movies would nonchalantly mention their 'Blackberry' and another character would gasp and say....You have a Blackberry? Now they'd say....So what?
And talking of Blackberries, if you haven't seen the skit set in a fruit shop with Ronnie Corbett (the One Ronnie) catch up with it now.....
Note the white blackberry. Isn't that an oxymoron?
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Nice point, it really is getting a lot more common that when it was first gathered a trending. But lets not be elitist, its a nice thing that they are more available you know..
These days, you can actually find BB phones at cheaper prices. You don't have to spend too much on the more expensive models when you can avail of the more affordable ones.
Yup....like everything else, the price falls as the exclusiveness ceases!
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