Archive for October 18th, 2003

Economic Change Over

Hong Kong’s CE TCH has mentioned on numerous occasions urging local citizens to get on the bandwagon of the economic change over within the Region.

So far, I have seen the strangest combinations of products in local shops like photomat selling slippers and sandals, salon selling children clothing, real estate agency selling ladies fashion, aquarium selling coats and shoes, and pet shop selling junk food.

The latest one which I just saw this afternoon, a laundromat selling fruits.

Way to go HK! Pretty soon, there will be no more specialty shops and only convenient shops remain in the Region.

Camera Phones on Speed

Last year during an interview by this magazine, when asked about the future of digital cameras, I said phones with a built-in digital camera will be more popular than conventional digital cameras.

Last month, Strategy Analytics reported sales of camera phones have surpassed that of conversion digital cameras for the first time in history.

Yesterday, Nokia announced that it intends to become the biggest manufacturer of digital cameras possibly as soon as before the end of this year by having almost every phone in its product line being a camera phone.