Metroliner telephone article 4106

No. I don't look at growth. Somewhere in a.f.c. newsgroup within the last month there was discussion about how everybody tried to get into the computer manufacturing biz when it was young.

My premise is that all new tech has to go through similar growing pains. Eventually, the biz settles down to almost a constant such as the airline industries, TVs, old-fashioned telephones, and cars.

Just take a look at how the computer biz' standards came about. In the beginning everybody tried new things and the dust settled down the one that was the most efficienct over all sectors of business; note that this usually is never the "best" design.

All tech standards seem to have to go through this evolution. Cell phones is going to go through the same. Exclusivity will have be elminated. It hasn't yet. It is beginning to with phone numbers moving with the customer. But this industry is still its throes of (I would guess) pre-teen years.

Yes! Thank you. That is who I was thinking of.

One difference with today's computer biz is that people don't need a lot of capital to begin making something they can sell. I don't know what the unintended nor the unexpected side effects of this is going to be. But it is going to be interesting to watch.

BAH