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How quickly do you buy new electronic gadgets?

11%

I like to be the first one to have anything new.

13%

I like to wait until they work out all the kinks.

30%

I like to wait until the price comes down.

40%

I wait until I really need the new functionality.

I wait till someone gives it to me as a gift.

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backward compatiblesearch for term: A system that is compatible with (e.g. can share data with) earlier versions of itself, or with other earlier systems, particularly systems it intends to supplant.A new version of a program is said to be backward compatible if it can use files and data created with an older version of the same program. A backward-compatible word processor, for instance, allows you to edit documents created with a previous version of the program.