With The Flashlight App on Most Phones, Is Anyone Buying Flashlights Anymore?
Everyone is talking about what the Apple Watch replacing the traditional watches and decimating the market. But that has been happening long before the Apple Watch came along. I'm not sure what is the percentage of the human population that wear watches but it is not a reach to suggest that that number dropped since the availability of the iPhone and other smart phones. What I am wondering about is how the smartphone has affected the flashlight market. I thought of this when I went on a recent camping trip. I had all the gears that I needed including flashlights for the strolls on the paths that had no lights. I brought a lot a couple of lanterns and two flashlights with 1000 lumens each. I ended up not using one of them because I had not thought to when I left the camp site which was well lit by a fire and half a dozen lanterns brought by my family and friends. With my wife using one of the flashlights, I had only my phone and so I turned it on...