There are a lot of people out there that just have to have the latest and greatest thing. They have to have the coolest new gadgets as soon as they are willing to wait in line for hours just to be among the first to get it. These people have never really made that much sense to me.
It just doesn’t pay to be an early adopter. Remember everyone who bought the first copies of Windows Vista? Aside from all of the bugs that have been mostly fixed in the past year, have you heard anyone who actually likes the operating system? Even so, Microsoft announced last week it would take the unprecedented step of slashing prices on versions of Vista. This means that if you waited, you could get the same OS for less cash. Continue reading The McBournie Minute: Early adoption always a bad idea