But telephone technology is changing so fast that a hot product today could be obsolete in a few years.
It would take a brave government to tell voters that it was making anything up to 50m television sets obsolete and a pretty silly one to spend billions on handing out free set-top boxes to people who don't feel like buying them.
If you teach students one trade, that skill might be obsolete in a few years.
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Zappos sells lifestyle products which follow seasonal fashion trends and become obsolete over a short span of time.
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For measurement purposes, the transit of Venus is as obsolete as a sextant.
Functionally obsolete is a different story, Stidger said, explaining that bridges carrying this tag also carry major design problems, diminishing their load-carrying capacity.
Because telephone technology is changing so fast that a hot product today could be obsolete in just a few years.
All for something that was supposed to be obsolete in just a couple of weeks.
In the meantime, ambitious women would do well to return to a time-honoured but supposedly obsolete tradition, and apply under a male name.
The bridge was not classified as structurally deficient, but a Federal Highway Administration database lists it as being "functionally obsolete" a category meaning that the design is outdated, such as having narrow shoulders and low clearance underneath.
But it is really an artifact of having a technologically obsolete payment system.
The notions of Right and Wrong are seen as obsolete, replaced by a different notion: You Get What You Get.
Her deregulation of the financial industry helped turn London from an increasingly obsolete financial center into a rival to Wall Street.
The iPod literally made CDs obsolete when it debuted a decade ago, and it soon became the default device for carrying music into the car.
The bridge had been rated "functionally obsolete, " according to a federal database, but state officials said it was safe to drive on.
When Apple surpassed Sony in mobile music (iPod made the Walkman obsolete), it had a fraction of the patents of Sony.
Perhaps the best way to summarize pay secrecy is to say that it has become an old-fashioned, obsolete management practice that has a much larger downside than upside.
Even the most talented in-house executive may be buried too deep in the weeds to ask the tough questions and offer forward-looking thinking to avoid a product becoming obsolete before it even makes it to the market.
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The Vertu Ti raises a provocative question relevant to the estimated one billion smartphone users in the world: Should our smartphones be less of a disposable consumable something that will soon become obsolete and thoughtlessly replaced and more of a durable good, an investment that transcends minor gadget trends?
"A printed encyclopaedia is obsolete the minute that you print it, " Mr Cauz said.
In fact, this technology could one day make expressions that refer to cash at all, like "saving a bundle, " obsolete.
If Yahoo will allow itself to develop technologies that make their present offerings obsolete, or augment them in a way that makes them a clear market leader, and market them with reckless abandon, the company has the ability to become relevant for decades to come.
Technology made us more productive, but it also made a lot of good jobs obsolete.
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The comparison was always a bit far-fetched, but her standing as chancellor in a grand coalition renders it obsolete.
His team is working on many next-generation technologies that could render Ion Torrent obsolete, including one that will read a single DNA molecule.
Nowadays the average software-engineering qualification becomes obsolete in around five years, so a student fresh out of college may be more valuable to a company than a 40-year-old.
Cassettes have long been considered obsolete, but the objects have had a cultural resurgence in recent years as independent musicians and labels have returned to the format in droves.
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