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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (59241)	1/22/2005 4:27:24 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

Can't compare because PC and handsets. Handsets need this network elmat builds to be useful. PCs are like cars you just make them more fancy, less costly to run and multipurpose. Gas stations and roads and traffic lights, radars, cops to fine you no need to invest on that. Buy let see: <computers, the price never dropped, the quality just kept improving and people upgraded to get the latest goodies. Their new computer was no cheaper than their previous one.> I would say that computers prices dropped over a very long period of time. I spent CAD6.900 for a Apple Macintosh dot matrix printer and a few SW packages in 1989. 5,652.96 todays US Dollar (since then the USWD was stronger lets say it was USD5K) (I was earning, clean, DM2.000 a month). Lets say I needed to work 3 months to pay for the MAC and stuff. I spend RM4.980 on a full fledged HP computer with everything besides receiving TV. They threw free of charge an ink jet color printer that prints, scans and photocopies. 1,310.91 today's US Dollar (Today I cold buy one of those HP in a few hours of work.)