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Originally Posted by Viseguy
Or so we're told by this piece in Yahoo! Finance.
According to the article, the six endangered technologies are: digital cameras, video game consoles, iPad/tablet PCs, netbooks, GPS, and -- yup, you guessed it -- e-book readers. |
I think it does affect consumers who are "casual" users of those types of devices, or those who have considered buying them, not as a necessary purchase but as an impulse buy. Obviously no one with a real interest in photography would get by with only a cell phone camera, and diehard gamers aren't interested in casual gaming that cell phones offer.
But for those who just take a few photos? Why would they buy a point and shoot when their cell phone does the job, and uploads it to their Facebook/flickr account immediately?
Convergent devices don't necessarily kill of dedicated devices...but they definitely impact the market from a manufacturer's standpoint.