Comments on: 5 Reasons Why Total Convergence is a Dream. http://hiblue.com/2009/11/23/5-reasons-why-total-convergence-is-a-dream/ Cloud-hopping with Mobility and the best of Web Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:27:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Xperia X10. Is Total Convergence The Answer? | UMPCPortal - Ultra Mobile Personal Computing http://hiblue.com/2009/11/23/5-reasons-why-total-convergence-is-a-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-699 Xperia X10. Is Total Convergence The Answer? | UMPCPortal - Ultra Mobile Personal Computing Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:58:07 +0000 http://hiblue.com/2009/11/23/5-reasons-why-total-convergence-is-a-dream/#comment-699 [...] the N900 was launched, Nokia positioned it as a total convergence device. It’s a dream (and the subject of my first ever blog post in 2006). The X10 is also aiming to be a total [...] [...] the N900 was launched, Nokia positioned it as a total convergence device. It’s a dream (and the subject of my first ever blog post in 2006). The X10 is also aiming to be a total [...]

]]> By: penis enlarging http://hiblue.com/2009/11/23/5-reasons-why-total-convergence-is-a-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-633 penis enlarging Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:32:33 +0000 http://hiblue.com/2009/11/23/5-reasons-why-total-convergence-is-a-dream/#comment-633 The first one, marketing alone is enough reason why total convergence is nothing but a sweet sweet dream, it MIGHT happen it's possible, but the like you said, chances are very slim especially with the companies like apple and such. And let's say that you're in a concert and just like a normal fan you want to capture this one in a lifetime experience and take a shot or two for remembrance and bragging rights to your friends. Are you gonna use your phones crappy 2 Megapixel camera? that produces noise equal to the sands in the beach. Of course not, your gonna use your brand-spanking new Nikon D90! That's why even if total convergence is plausible, consumers would think twice if they really want to have a device with a little-of-everything capabilities only. Nice post by the way! Best regards, Peter C. Trape The first one, marketing alone is enough reason why total convergence is nothing but a sweet sweet dream, it MIGHT happen it’s possible, but the like you said, chances are very slim especially with the companies like apple and such.

And let’s say that you’re in a concert and just like a normal fan you want to capture this one in a lifetime experience and take a shot or two for remembrance and bragging rights to your friends. Are you gonna use your phones crappy 2 Megapixel camera? that produces noise equal to the sands in the beach. Of course not, your gonna use your brand-spanking new Nikon D90!

That’s why even if total convergence is plausible, consumers would think twice if they really want to have a device with a little-of-everything capabilities only.

Nice post by the way!

Best regards,
Peter C. Trape

]]> By: turn.self.off http://hiblue.com/2009/11/23/5-reasons-why-total-convergence-is-a-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-598 turn.self.off Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:10:34 +0000 http://hiblue.com/2009/11/23/5-reasons-why-total-convergence-is-a-dream/#comment-598 I think marketing may go more like "Lets combine the two, we can save a bundle on hardware, and upsell the combo the the customers!". This in combo with pricing, as no company wants to fight razor thin margins, the very ones one find on single use products that one can give aways as gifts in cereal boxes. That's why big computer brands first tried to dismiss netbooks and are now pushing them more and more towards laptops, as that's the only way to get the margins that keep the shareholders happy. And the same happens to converged devices, as they can upsell on features rather then try and battle it out over razor margins on single use hardware. Especially when the different features share hardware, and is really only present in software (like say when one have a DSP that can handle any codec from voice to music, as long as the right code is loaded into it). Margins are also why more and more companies are going "service", with the hardware only being the gateway. Tie the user to "your" service package, and they will be shopping your hardware for eternity. Or at least until the competition comes up with a package that will make the customer take the time consuming and "painful" job of transplanting their digital existence to said competitor. I think marketing may go more like “Lets combine the two, we can save a bundle on hardware, and upsell the combo the the customers!”.

This in combo with pricing, as no company wants to fight razor thin margins, the very ones one find on single use products that one can give aways as gifts in cereal boxes. That’s why big computer brands first tried to dismiss netbooks and are now pushing them more and more towards laptops, as that’s the only way to get the margins that keep the shareholders happy. And the same happens to converged devices, as they can upsell on features rather then try and battle it out over razor margins on single use hardware. Especially when the different features share hardware, and is really only present in software (like say when one have a DSP that can handle any codec from voice to music, as long as the right code is loaded into it).

Margins are also why more and more companies are going “service”, with the hardware only being the gateway. Tie the user to “your” service package, and they will be shopping your hardware for eternity. Or at least until the competition comes up with a package that will make the customer take the time consuming and “painful” job of transplanting their digital existence to said competitor.

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