The Unhappiest Cellphone Users On Earth

My mother-in-law wanted to get these for our kids, but we didn’t want them having cell phones. Technology isn’t all that for those under 10, trust me.

The Walt Disney Co. will pull the plug on its branded cell phone service by the end of the year, the company said Thursday.

Disney said customers liked the product that allowed parents to determine the location of a child carrying a phone, but that it was having problems getting the phone into large retailers.

“We decided that changing strategies was a better alternative to pursue profitable growth in the mobile services area,” Steve Wadsworth, president of the Walt Disney Internet Group, said in a statement.

The company will end sales immediately and continue to service the handsets until the end of the year.

I’m gald we talked her out of it, or we would have been stuck with those things come the first of the year.

Ya know, Disney never should have been in the cell-phone market anyway, really. They should stick to doing what they do good, which of course, is pretty much undetermined at this point. So I guess it doesn’t matter, huh?