US PC Dominance Holding it Back?
from the always-a-problem-somewhere dept
Back in the late 80s and early 90s I remember all the complaints about how the US had fallen behind by not having HDTV or some other thing that the Japanese had. Then, all of a sudden everything went digital, and the US was at an advantage because we didn't have this infrastructure tying us down that the Japanese did, so we could leapfrog ahead of them. Now, some people are predicting that the US rapid adoption of PCs is holding us back on new wireless devices. It could certainly be true. We definitely have been slower at adopting wireless devices, but I'm still not convinced that's the end of the world.
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PC ball-&-chain for US?
pete
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