The US Consumer

We spend our first day in Hong Kong travel around town exploring cell phones and service providers. I am amazed at the crazy amount of service options available-- dual-band/tri-band/quad-band/SMS/MMS/GSM/IDD/3G/RIM/blah/blah/blah. About the only thing apparent from this experience was how companies have decided to pre-bundle all their different services and dumb-down their packages for the American market. Clearly they feel (and are probably correct) that most Americans could not comprehend all these options any better than they could program their VCR.