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Old 06-11-2010, 07:49 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by gantourki View Post
I am sure I could find many examples were technology could have been a threat to an existing product, yet these existing solutions are still in existence today. We all thought email would kill regular mail it never happened. The same is true for mobile phones versus regular phones
Email and mobile phone actually do phase out snail mail and landlines. It doesn't happen over night, but the process has started and moves quite fast.
Today kids are unfamiliar with old fashioned land line phones without number buttons, you know...with old fashioned dial rings
More and more companies urge customers to use e-bills vs. paper bills.
More and more families forgo landlines altogether and use mobile phones only.

We will see...
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