At the ASI.
Look how quickly the combination of markets and capitalism pushed mobile phones out across the world.
Timmy Elsewhere
January 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment
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1 The Great Simpleton // Jan 3, 2010 at 11:22 am
In 1994 I was working for Orange. Just before launch we were given a briefing by the marketing team.
How we laughed when they told us that by the year 2000 25% of the population would have a mobile phone. We were in stitches when they told us that some people would use SMS.
Those marketing types are such optimists.
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