Less satisfaction with newer products?

Dec 4th, 2005 | By william | Category: Mobile Technologies

Are we the ones among who want to choose the very best products? Waiting for the next Treo, the better Tungsten X, and even dreaming of PalmOS 6 or Linux-Palm devices to be launched ;-). We may need to learn to choose “good enough”. We have many (and increasing) choices (like the Pocket PCs and Symbian Phones) in front of us and if we are usually nagged by the alternatives which we do not have time to investigate, we are nagged and delayed our choices. And this usually results in dissatisfaction. Scientific American says, “There is good reasons to believe that overwhelming choices at least contributes to the epidemic of unhappiness spreading through modern society.” It seems that people was happier with the products they bought when there are less choices. Think of the days of PalmPilot, Palm III and Palm V, users seemed more satisfied with the functionalities and accepted the limitations of the products. I am not criticising anyone’s attitude but I just want to voice my thought about how we will be happy (and satisfy) with which handheld we choose to use. We may think of what are our needs (essential) and what are actually only our “wants” (not necessary) and enjoy what we are using, and choose the products which are good enough to fulfill our “needs”. Nothing is perfect, anyway.

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