On: Amazon’s $50 Fire tablet reviewed

[peter303]

Televisions cost several months wages when they came out in the US the 1950s. Yet most families acquired them. The installment system- weekly, monthly- was the way of buying expensive appliances before credit cards became common. I belive TVs spread around the wotld in a similar fashion. Now tablets.

[SixSigma → peter303]

not if electricity was sporadic and there was no signal and when it was on, most of the stuff was in a language you didn't understand