January 10, 2010
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10 Things You Shouldn’t Buy in 2010
Yahoo! Finance has come out with a list of ten things you shouldn’t buy in 2010 because of the way our lives are changing and trends in new products. While some of these make a lot of sense, I disagree with a fair amount of them.Here’s the list:
Comments (43)
It makes me sad to see that they think we shouldn’t buy newspapers and cd’s this year. D: I wasn’t aware that so many magazines have shut down. The internet is a wonderful thing, but there’s just something about getting a paper and a cup of coffee every morning that I find very relaxing…
It seems also that the music industry is slowly falling to its death. -sigh-
Computers are a mixed blessing.
But I love going to a record store. I like the experience, and now I can’t even find one. It’s so sad
disagree with external hard drives – these are a must
SLR cameras have always been the best even before the advent of digital photography but have always been the more expensive option too. In a way it’s sad to see some things go away but that is what always happens. Men no longer club women over the head and drag them by their hair into caves…at least not on the first date lol. The Japanese will soon introduce a car that gets over 100 miles per gallon. Many developed nations have high speed rail and have had the so-called bullet trains for quite a number of years now, decades actually. Sure it can be cozy to read the morning newspaper but there is so much more information available online for any given story.
i still buy CDs. come on! the quality is different! just stop by every now and then and you can find some good saves! i bought Justin Timberlake’s FutureSex/LoveSound for $4.99!
and why not buy a camera? i recently bought a new Nikon SLR and i love it! according to that article, i got a pretty good deal! $499 instead of the $570 posted on the article.
@Angelicliar - agreed. record stores are always amazing.
and i like acquiring some of the art in the CDs anyway.
SLR camera’s are great, but I don’t see them taking over the market en masse. Most people seem to like a simple point-and-shoot. The price tag is a bit of a hindrance as well, although you wouldn’t hear me complaining if they dropped. I’ve had my eye on one for quite some time now.
I haven’t bought a CD in years, but I do still buy DVD’s. My husband and I are working on our Disney collection right now, and I have a feeling we will continue to do so far into the future. There’s just something about being able to browse the shelf and have all of your options laid out for you…I doubt we’ll buy DVD’s beyond our DIsney movies and the occasional tv season, though (LOST, ftw!).
I am SO glad books weren’t on this list. I can handle college text books going by the wayside (thank God), and I was never much of a magazine/newspaper person. I do own a Sony eReader and I love it, but it isn’t the same as reading an actual print book. Unfortunately I do forsee books becoming more obsolete in the future, but they will always hold a special place in my heart.
…new college textbooks were on the list?
I mean. College textbooks aren’t /created/ used. Nor do i really think there’s a line for brand-new, hot-off-the-press COLLEGE TEXTBOOKS YEAH!! I think it’s more like: Well shit, my prof. just changed books this semester for the first time in five years, and I can’t find this book, used, anywhere. I kinda need the grade for the class starting tomorrow.
I sound like a spammer when I say buy gold or silver. In uncertain times you might have to hedge against the falling dollar.
I bought an 8.0megapixel camera and xanga only likes less high res pictures. If you are going to take pictures and don’t desire to be a professional cameraperson an inexpensive camera is still a great option.
Contrary to the above poster we won’t see 100mpg. However some Prius owners have modified their hybrid to have more batteries so it uses less gasoline.
College books if available for download is cheaper in some cases. If you plan to use a textbook for reference in the future it might be better to buy the book. In some cases a student with access to a scanner could sell the book to students that are taking the same class.
I still buy newspapers because you can get cupons that would save you money at the store. The less newspapers available opens up the possibility to one group being able to mold the electorate, that is scary.
Blackberry! Yes it’s dominating!
what? these are kinda the essentials of life.
A few of these are actually quite essential and I really don’t agree with.
I doubt I’d use an online data back up versus an external HDD.
I doubt my mom would use a bulky SLR versus her tiny camera where she could store it in her purse.
I doubt the smartphone industry will go down. In fact, Im sure it’ll go up with dropping prices of the phones themselves and cheaper services.
I thought everyone knew you shouldn’t drive something that gets 15 miles to the gallon?
@LeaveThisMind - very much agreed
I can agree with half of the list (not purchasing CDs, smartphones, new textbooks, gas guzzling cars, and energy inefficient homes and appliances). Everything else just seems a little ridiculous. I’m still buying an external hard drive damnit!
Eh, I’m still buying CDs and DVDs. There’s something about physically having the CD in your hands that’s just not the same as having just a digital copy. Plus, buying a CD can sometimes be cheaper than downloading from iTunes.
I nominate anything sweatshop made, and anything yahoo or any other media outlet encourages. The proof is in the pudding: Dollar differential between the richest and the poorest has gone from 5 to 1 to 74 to 1 in the last 200 years since sweatshops began.
Perhaps as people on xanga who disagree with this article, we should encourage others and ourselves to purchase these items, for a very minuscule amount of proof they aren’t dead
Who buys CD’s anymore?!?! With FrostWire and LimeWire and iTunes out i see no need to purchase CD’s
@tbstodard - Though I’m an avid iTunes user, I buy CDs all the time.
That has to be one of the stupider articles published from Yahoo!. Whoever wrote that was hard-pressed to meet a deadline or something.
I can understand with the DVDs but for a different reason. DVDs are slowly fading out because people are starting to switch to Blu-Ray now. So DVDs will soon be in the videocassette position very soon.
As for the rest of the list, I mainly disagree with it. I’d have a hard time trusting an online site to back up some important and personal information. The disappearance of newspapers will be just the beginning. I’m afraid it’ll eventually get to the level of seeing less and less books around since they’ll pretty much be turned into PDF files for the Kindles and so forth. I hope it doesn’t go that far but who’s to say?
I still buy CDs….I just can’t give them up.
I have a problem with all of these…
DVDs: I still buy older movies on DVD since they look about 90% like a blu-ray movie when played on my up-converting Blu-Ray player. It’s a lot cheaper. Blu-rays are more expensive.
Home Telephone Service: I don’t carry my phone with me everywhere when I’m at home… If I’m at home, I expect people to call me at home. Cell phone is for out and about use or texting. And cell phone plans are more expensive.
External Hard Drives: So many things wrong with this one. What about security issues? It takes longer than Firewire or USB 3.0, too, to store it all online and download it back again. And more expensive, again.
Smart Phone Also-Rans: No comment as I don’t care nor know much about smartphones.
Compact Digital Cameras: Not everyone wants to carry a 3-ton camera with them on every trip. They’re huge, complicated, and, like everything else they recommend, expensive.
Newspaper Subs: I can’t imagine myself manouvering the laptop around the table in the morning as I’m trying to eat breakfast. And the decline in sales doesn’t automatically mean you should stop buying something you enjoy reading…
CDs: I love CDs… They look nicer than random burned copies of all your digital music. Not to mention this seems to be advocating piracy. Atleast it’s the only money-saving option so far.
New College Textbooks: Digital copies make my eyes burn. Other than that, this one is reasonable, yet obvious.
Gas-Guzzling Cars and Energy Efficient Things: The two other only reasonable options on this list of 10. Also obvious, though.
So 4/10 save you money, and 3/10 actually make sense, albeit being very obvious.
This list sucks.
I can understand a lot of these as the technology is rapidly changing. However, I still buy DVDs but I only buy them when they’ve gone on sale (not at $20 a piece!). And, I already own some of these – external hard drive, compact digital camera, & smartphone.
I’m hoping that some of the things on this list are suffering more because people just don’t have the money for them than because they are becoming obsolete. Like CD’s and DVD’s for example, I love buying both, but I just haven’t been able to recently because all of my money is going into more important needs, like paying bills. Same goes for the newspapers for me. Maybe when the economy picks up a little bit, these things will have a better time.
Also – not buying new textbooks unless you have to is just common sense to me. D:
I’m actually excited about the digital copies of textbooks because they’re free and I have a Kindle (which reads just like paper).
The whole Gas Guzzling Cars and Inefficient Stuff, those things started to happen a while back before 2010.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4691122&Sku=TSD-1000AS3
90 dollar external hard drive on tigerdirect.
Fuck online backups. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE SERVER GOES DOWN, HMMMM?
CDs have novelty value same with vinyl. And I’m still going to buy an external, today actually!
i disagree with 4 thing on this list…
seriously? compact cameras are out of style? they’re so convenient and now you can get at least 8 mega pixel on them which produces a pretty good picture. it’s a great camera for anyone who doesn’t frequently take pictures that need amazing quality like family christmas photos, pictures of you and your friend hanging out, going to a concert [also they fit in your pocket, which is great because you don't want to be carrying a TON of stuff with you. or a really nice expensive camera likely to get broken or lost in the crowd. bad idea], or your mom that just likes to take quick snapshots of you when you go places all dressed up.
external hard drives. I DO NOT WANT ALL MY COMPUTER INFO FLOATING AROUND ON THE WEB. while i’m sure these companies take immense security measures to protect their customers privacy, it’s still not 100% safe. i think it’s probably easier to hack the web than an external hard drive… which you’d need in your hands to hack [i think? i'm not real informed on how you hack those things, but i'm pretty sure that's how it works]. i’d rather keep the stuff on my computer in my own hands, not floating around in the abyss of cyberspace. kthnx…
CDs. i love them. i would much rather go to a record store and buy a hard copy of a CD than get it off of iTunes. over christmas break, i went record store hopping with my friends and since we went to indie record stores and got the majority [if not all] of our CDs used, we got them for about $5 a CD which is WAY cheaper than buying shit on iTunes. and you’ll have a hard copy if your iTunes is frequently glitchy and deletes all your music like mine.
home telephone service. my home phone is much more reliable than my cell and it *always* gets service and no shitty-i’m-going-through-a-tunnel-reception. ’nuff said. however, you can’t text on a home phone, but if i’m at home and need to call someone, i’m going to use the landline not the cell.
External Hard drives will always exist. You think they haven’t already made computers that can hold pretty much everything? They withhold new technology because they know everyone will need to go out and buy additional items to function.
Nobody trusts putting their files on the internet.
..and since when is iTunes “affordable” they’re prices are completely ridiculous.
I haven’t picked up a CD in months. Let alone listened to one (it’s all on the iPod now). I will, however, keep buying DVD’s. I don’t care how rapidly our technology is changing, I’m going to keep buying DVD’s. I already one a compact digital camera and I have family who one external hard drives. I’d also much rather buy new college text books rather than used. I don’t know why, but I like knowing that someone else hasn’t used my book before me.
Uhh I’d rather have all of my data stored on an external/internal hard drive rather than have it all stored online. First, the download time to get 1TB of data would take forever. Second, who knows what kind of person would hack into your account and take all your stuff? Third, I like being able to carry all of my stuff around with me rather than having to search for free wifi somewhere.
I’m not sure what’s up with the featured weblogs, but….
The whole post for this is here:
http://www.dollarish.com/719752191/10-things-you-shouldnt-buy-in-2010/
i kinda need my textbooks to live…
and if i cant find them used anywhere what am i supposed to do >.>
why would i want to wait to upload/download gb’s of data?!? that’s the point of having an external hard drive!
then again this is coming from yahoo, as they should have included their company as a product that will no longer be useful in the future!
Screw this list. Technology can only go so far before it’s useless. Personally, reading an eBook is an idea that’s completely unfathomable to me; it’s just not going to happen as far as I’m concerned.
I love External hard drives.. they are the best!
It seems like half of the writing yahoo does is either right on point or needs some work. This definitely needs some work, because having an external hard drive is a lot more secure than backing things up on a website.
This article is so depressing!
I disagree with most on the list .
I still buy DVD’s and CD’s and am not a fan of downloading either. I also buy old records and VHS tapes at thrift stores.
I also read the newspaper all the time and enjoy it.
Home phone service, seriously ? I totally still use that.
Thats just some of what I do and some on that list is absolute bull . .
I still love DVDS and books..This article worries me a bit.