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April 27, 2005
Wal-Mart Unveils Customized Music CDs
"Phil Leigh predicted Wal-Mart would have trouble overcoming the desire for an immediate return on the money paid. He also said the pool of people without CD burners or broadband Internet access was shrinking. In addition, those without a CD burner most likely are in lower-income brackets."
Having been making custom CD for myself for 5 or so years, the notion that you would pay someone else to do it seemed a little silly to me. Then I read this comment at the bottom of the article, there are people without CD burners??? I know broadband roll out has been stymied by corporate incompetence, but CD burners are below being a commodity at this point, you can buy one for like 15 to 20 bucks now. Who the hell doesn't have one now?? I mean you'd have to be using a computer that was completely out of date to not have one, or purposely shoot yourself in the foot when buying your computer. I can't imagine what these people do for data storage, I'm already looking to upgrade from DVD burners to the Blu-ray technology so I can store 50 gigs at a time. So I started doing some research to see if I could find a way to order a computer without a CD burner on it, and guess where one of the only places you could do it was??? Wal-Mart! They actually they sell computers without a burner or a disk drive, so you can't even use floppies. Not sure how people get their data off those machines, but that's not my problem because I don't own such a machine, but they have effectively created their own market for their product, by creating super bargain basement machines for 188 dollars without what has to be considered fundamental technology included.
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Posted by ManDrake at April 27, 2005 8:37 PM
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