Question No 1 Think about the last piece of consumer electro

Question No. 1 Think about the last piece of consumer electronics you purchased. How did you first learn about it? What factors (features, price, ease of use, etc.) did you weigh before you purchased it which of these factors was most influential in your purchase decision? Are you still satisfied with your purchase? Question No. 2 How has the social change driven the development of new information technologies, such as cell phone, text messaging, movie recommendation software? Question No. 4 People give a variety of reasons for copying a music CD from a friend instead of buying it. Refute each of reasons given below using one of the viable theories (Hint: you don’t have to use the same theory for each time.) a. I don’t have enough money. b. The retail price is too high. The company is gouging customers c. Since I wouldn’t have bought it anyway, the company didn’t lose a sale. d. I am giving my friend the opportunity to do good deed e. Everyone else is doing it. Why should I be the only person to buy it when everyone else is getting it for free?

Solution

Answer 1 :- The last piece of electronics I purchased was a MacBook. I learnt about it through social media particularly Internet.

The factors which I weighed before purchasing it were, as follows :-

1. Need :- I first analysed that did I really need it?

2. Use :- After I realised that I need it, I tried to check with the purpose of it like what all can I do with it. I can surf Internet, save my important documents and other data, start taking a part time job and many such useful factors.

3. Features :- I could have bought some other laptop or PC too, but why I chose MacBook was because of its fantastic features, great look, fine look and feel while using it and also because it was the best in the marke and still is.

4. Price :- It was an issue since the cost of it is high compared to rest of the similar products in the market but the quality of the product was more important to me, so I chose quality over cost.

5. Ease of use :- I choose to buy MacBook because I could carry it anywhere and use it as per my ease. Also ecause its battery life is better than anyother similar product in the market.

The most influential factors were the need and the features. Yes, I am satisfied with my purchase until and unless something better comes in the market which can replace it.

Answer 2 :-  Malcolm Gladwell said “poverty is not deprivation. It is isolation.” Often the smallest technological advances create the largest social impacts, take the Internet for example.

When your community is connected through technology, people hear each other and a culture of expectation regarding consistent communication builds. UW professor Kathy Gill said in a November 2009 lecture, “culture is the way we express ourselves as individuals.” Therefore it is plausible to believe that without technology, people in the developing world are unable to express themselves as well as those in the developed world.