Mike Elgan posted an excellent article on Computer World listing 10 technologies that should just go away. I couldn’t agree more with this list.
- Fax Machines
- ‘Cigar lighter receptacle’ plugs in cars
- WWW
- Business cards
- Movie rental stores
- Home entertainment remotes
- Landline phones
- Music CDs
- Satellite radio
- Redundant registration
What do you have against satellite radios?
As Mike Elgan points out…
“Sirius XM programming is great stuff. But you don’t need rockets and orbiting satellites to deliver noise to radios. Since the whole satellite radio idea was dreamed up years ago, MP3-based music, podcasts, audio books and other sound content has been mainstreamed. Car audio equipment now has a jack for plugging in a media player or cell phone.
If you’re going to pay a costly subscription for something, pay for a mobile broadband data subscription, which can bring you the whole Internet, not just sound files.”