| RolStoppable said: @kowenicki That won't happen unless Nintendo is dumb enough to start to believe in this idea. Convergence is a reoccuring dream and the market rejects it every time. |
Not really. Convergence is slowly killing the iPod as a music player only. That's a major reason why Apple has moved their product line towards mobile phones and pocket computers, because other such devices were offering media functionality and iPod growth was stalling.
Convergence often fails with large appliances because it's easy to store several specialized devices in a house, and you often want to dedicate a particular space to a particular function anyway (e.g. PC in the office to work, media player in the living room to watch with friends), so the offer of an all-in-one can actually reduce value. Not so in the pocket space, where people don't want to line their pockets with a cell phone, PDA, media player, and handheld console. Being able to pack all those features into one mobile device offers a special value that you don't get by converging the household counterparts of those devices.
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