Comments on: iPod and iPhone to become one… http://www.blahblahtech.com/2007/07/ipod-and-iphone-to-become-one.html Tech' views that are 667% more interesting than the tech' news itself... Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:36:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Wayne Smallman http://www.blahblahtech.com/2007/07/ipod-and-iphone-to-become-one.html#comment-513 Wayne Smallman Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:57:00 +0000 http://sv2.mhlists.net/~wwwblah/index.php/2007/07/10/ipod-and-iphone-to-become-one/#comment-513 We might laugh at the idea of the convergence überdevice, but if such a device solves a problem or better yet, several different problems, then why not?<br/><br/>That said, part of the battle that was won by Apple with regards to the iPhone was the ergonomics, which is where most other CE people fall flat on their faces... We might laugh at the idea of the convergence überdevice, but if such a device solves a problem or better yet, several different problems, then why not?

That said, part of the battle that was won by Apple with regards to the iPhone was the ergonomics, which is where most other CE people fall flat on their faces…

]]> By: David Bradley http://www.blahblahtech.com/2007/07/ipod-and-iphone-to-become-one.html#comment-512 David Bradley Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:35:00 +0000 http://sv2.mhlists.net/~wwwblah/index.php/2007/07/10/ipod-and-iphone-to-become-one/#comment-512 The convergence of all the various portable and not so portable devices we have access to would be very useful. I have a digital video recorder that is also a photovault and an mp3/mp4 player, but I cannot phone anyone on it. Whereas my phone is also a video recorder, calculator, voice record, FM radio/mp3 player, oh, and phone.<br/><br/>It would be so much nicer to have a Freeview-sat-mpeg5-iphone-pod-blog-webview-pocket-espresso-machine, don't you think?<br/><br/>Half the problem is anti-anti-competition laws rather than technological limitations, of course.<br/><br/>db The convergence of all the various portable and not so portable devices we have access to would be very useful. I have a digital video recorder that is also a photovault and an mp3/mp4 player, but I cannot phone anyone on it. Whereas my phone is also a video recorder, calculator, voice record, FM radio/mp3 player, oh, and phone.

It would be so much nicer to have a Freeview-sat-mpeg5-iphone-pod-blog-webview-pocket-espresso-machine, don’t you think?

Half the problem is anti-anti-competition laws rather than technological limitations, of course.

db

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