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The Age Curve: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm
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The Age Curve: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm

by Kenneth W. Gronbach
July 2008
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
4h 17m
English
AMACOM
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Cell Phones: The Market That Keeps Expanding!

I am an early adopter. I like to have cool new things before other people. My first mobile phone in the eighties was the size of a bread box (well, not quite). It had a strap and you could wear it over your shoulder. It had a big heavy battery and a handset from a home phone. Wherever I went, interest in the phone was intense. I knew this phone thing was going to be big. Talk about an expanding market. Mobile phones morphed into car phones, and car phones morphed into cell phones. Today my cell phone is about the same size as my Volvo key. Every member of my family has one and would be lost without it.

My teenage Generation Y daughters use their phones to take photos, look at photos, send photos, ...

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ISBN: 9780814401811