Monday, November 03, 2008

Prey

Young people in India ruthlessly spend a big proportion of their monthly salary on buying cellphones. Imagine someone spending $3000 on a cellphone in the US! Thats the kind of proportion I am talking about.

A cellphone is like the thing that defines them.
They become inseparable body parts.
Phone model numbers are engraved on finger tips.
The next set of astrologers are being taught to tell about a person by looking at his/her cellphone.

Cellphone makers can't cell just phones anymore. They need to cell them as fancy displays, touchscreens, MP3 players and cameras. Their customers are simply preys to these tactics!

14 Comments:

Blogger Haritha said...

hail the existence of cell phones. for they provide me my daily bread and butter :)
I think the same applies to you!

10:05 PM

 
Blogger Anand said...

hehe yes...semiconductor companies, mobile services are making lots of money...
in US and some other countries...we dont hav to purchase the instruments directly but we still own them...IC companies still make their money...
here (india) they spend so much money on the instrument itself...thats where i think the cos are using indulgent youth...nothing to blame the cos...

2:40 AM

 
Blogger Kiran Iyer said...

Well, everything shud b in moderation. Too much of anything is bad (discount icecreams and chocolates fo course!)

6:02 AM

 
Blogger Anand said...

yes esp. snickers and hersheys :)

7:35 AM

 
Blogger Somasundaram said...

hehe.. good one... actually many models of PDA's cost more than the salaries of most people in India... :)

btw good word play: "cell the phones" (unless it's an embarrassing typo :D)

8:14 AM

 
Blogger Anand said...

thanks da obama...
typo wont happen twice :)

8:16 AM

 
Blogger Somasundaram said...

adappaavi... idhu konjam over...

If i'm Obama just coz i said few things to support him, then you're surely an 85 year old hindi film music director...

muhahaha ;)

8:18 AM

 
Blogger Anand said...

athu yaaru da 85 yr old?

8:25 AM

 
Blogger Somasundaram said...

nobody.. chumma... because you passionately listen to hindi songs... :P

8:31 AM

 
Blogger HeWaRs said...

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8:54 AM

 
Blogger HeWaRs said...

Somasundaram: actually many models of PDA's cost more than the salaries of most people in India... :)"
Is he talking abt the per capita income? crap crap crap...
dei come on.. do u really think cell phone should just be used for calling and sms??.. Just like motors ever remain as motors and generators ever as generators(I don't have anything against motors, I never liked Electric machines -1&2 :P)

May be you wont complain when they insert a motor into the cellphone..
:D :D

8:57 AM

 
Blogger Somasundaram said...

haha... Sorry about making this a discussion forum :)
But since my comment was branded "crap":

This blog WAS about the high cost of mobiles IN India and the ability of companies to lure customers... I never said mobiles are just for sms and calls. Then everyone will stop with a 1108... :D

9:29 AM

 
Blogger Kaushik said...

Tssk tssk...Snickers'la muttai irukku, abhishtu. :P
Oh and btw, where's that fan of yours?

4:55 PM

 
Blogger Intrepid traveller's dairy said...

I agree!! I noticed all this when I broke someone's cell phone in India by accident..

7:31 AM

 

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