Flurry of mobile updates costs firms, consumers: "As Apple CEO Steve Jobs proudly unveiled the next-generation iPad at a crammed news conference last week, you could almost make out the collective groan from millions who bought the original.
These early adopters suddenly transformed into technology laggards, like post-ball Cinderellas staring at pumpkins. The urge to get iPads under the Christmas tree propelled sales of the tablets to more than 7 million last quarter alone, so a significant chunk of the 15 million total owners have had the thing for only a little more than two months.
At this point, it's not exactly a revelation that there's consumer frustration over the accelerating pace of the technology product cycle - and in several important ways, Apple is far from the worst offender. Knowing that what you buy today will be leapfrogged in the near future has become the basic price of participating in the consumer electronics industry."
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