early adopters

    By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

    | 12:00PM 8/10/2011
    If you really want the latest gadget, you'd better sleep on it: Price cuts on consumer tech, long familiar, are getting even more drastic, punishing early adopters. Read on to find out why the hottest electronics just keep getting cheaper.

    By Alex Salkever

    | 4:30PM 7/11/2010
    Early iPad adopters may be overwhelmingly male, but Yahoo's user data shows women are catching up. That's good news for Apple, which historically does well with gender-neutral products. The other good news: iPads are increasingly used for online shopping.

    By Tom Barlow

    | 1:30PM 3/15/2010
    If you were one of the estimated 150,000 people (like me) who ordered an iPad in the first three days after Apple began accepting orders for early April delivery, you're probably an early adopter -- made of part vanity, part curiosity, with a willing to pay a premium for the latest and greatest...