fax machine

Similarly, fax machines are also backward in technology. It's a waste of resources to print out emails that can be sent clearly, and then smash the printed things by fax.

Although some people argue that fax machines continue to exist, their real purpose is not to transmit files, but to transmit signatures, because digital signatures in e-mails have no operational legal effect. This is actually incorrect. As long as the law recognizes it, there is technology to solve this problem. But almost every company has a fax machine, just because other companies do; Other companies have fax machines, because all the companies around him have them. This inertia makes new technologies have no room for survival, and also makes every new company buy fax machines.

voicemail

Americans all use voice mail. This is a stupid thing. Leave a message when you call, and wait for someone to call back. If you call back, you can still leave a message. In China, a country where everyone has a mobile phone and uses SMS, MSN and QQ, voice mail is too backward.

But the backward voice mail may not be eliminated soon. Why?

When voice mail was popular in America, there was nothing as good as what we use now. When the whole society begins to widely use voice mail, when it becomes a habit, it is difficult for you to shake it. An American is used to leaving messages in voice mail because all his friends' phones prompt voice messages; He often checks his voice mail because his friends leave messages for him from time to time. He will leave a message in someone else's voice mail because he knows his friend will check it. ...

Video Compact Disc

I once chatted with the former CEO of C-Cube and mentioned that C-Cube entered China (C-Cube was the decoder chip manufacturer of all VCDs in its early years). I think China may not be very successful, because there is no market for vcd. The results show that the sales of VCD players in China are amazing, and it is the largest market in Gao Bai. Later, I learned that Americans use video recorders because there are many videos. Everyone is still making videos, because there are many VCRs ... And in China, this network effect started with VCD.

third generation

Take 3G, which has been heated up recently. Some friends around me began to feel the feeling when the concept of web 2.0 first came out. I think this is just an illusion, and the real 3G era is far from coming.

We can look at the development of 3G in Japan, which is not only caused by the popularity of 3G equipment. There is an important point in time, that is, KDD began to implement the monthly subscription system. The monthly fee and the popularity of 3G equipment have promoted the popularity of 3G in Japan. In China, simply speaking, we are waiting for the cheap 3G monthly package from China Mobile, China Unicom or Telecom.

Fixed tariff and tariff reduction are not the same concept. Using a slightly higher monthly fee is even more useful than reducing the traffic per megabyte to 1 cent. Why? Because to put it bluntly, the tariff is not the problem, but the use is the problem.

Now 3G charges by traffic, so not many people use 3G; Because not many people use 3G, 3G applications are not enough and not good enough; Because the application of 3G is not good enough, the number of people using 3G is delayed. Because the number of 3G can't go up, the tariff can't come down. This is a fast knot. If this cycle starts with a monthly subscription, users will get much more applications with much less money in the future. This increase and decrease, the value gap in the middle will come out.