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07-22-2007, 05:37 PM | #16 |
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Okay, ultimately, no one wants to carry multiple devices. But they will, and they do, when the devices they carry perform significantly better than "converged" devices. If the telcos want to sell me a converged device, they're simply going to have to make a damned good one... that's all. But in the meantime, the heck with the overpriced charges for underperforming services.
Maybe it's because I grew up in the 60s/70s, but I fondly remember the power of components, and think that that's the way we should be going. No boombox ever worked as well as shelf of components, an amp, tuner, record player, tape player, CD, and equalizer, with speakers custom-chosen for your music and space. iPods suck unless you buy better earphones for them. A PDA is lousy for taking serious notes until you buy a fold-up keyboard. Components... that's the future. Convergence is just wasting our time. |
07-29-2007, 07:50 AM | #17 |
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As someone who still thinks of himself as a hi-fi geek, I have to agree.
Convergence only works when the functions being converged aren't quality- or feature-centric, because it generally ends up consisting of low quality or highly limited units shoved into a single device. Convergence always involves trade-offs. In some areas, such as audio quality and features on a DAP, I'm not willing to make any compromises. There is no way that a converged unit is going to read as well as my Sony Reader and still have the audio quality and format flexibility as a DAP that my Rio Karma has. And people want to shove all of that into a phone? Let the phone be a phone, for cryin' out loud. Dial-talk-hangup. I don't need a PDA. I'm not organized enough to use an organizer. And I prefer to hand-write all of my first drafts anyway. And there's the problem. Everyone else will have a completely different set of priorities on things like phone, reading, audio, video, and PDA/handheld functions. No one unit will satisfy all of them. |
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07-29-2007, 09:37 AM | #18 |
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Until recently, mobile (cell) phone technology in the US lagged years behind what's been available to us in the rest of the world precisely because the US used its own CDMA phone system, rather than the global GSM standard that the rest of the world used. It's only now that GSM is becoming more widely available in the US that people there are now getting what we've had for years, and there are still things which we regard as normal that aren't available in the US, such as the ability to send "long" SMS messages.
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