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Old 01-07-2011, 12:22 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by Kitabi View Post
Unfortunately, the ongoing trends are in support of multi-purpose devices. Take the example of the iPod and iPhone. iPod sales have plateaued or are dropping (depending on which iPod we are talking of) while iPhone sales continue to rise. People did not want to carry an mp3 player AND the phone. Increasingly, people do not want to carry a portable game console AND a phone. And IMHO people do not/would not want to carry an eReader AND a tablet.
I confess to an aversion to iAnything, but perhaps the plateau/decline in iPod sales is simply because they haven't done anything new with it for a while and everyone who wants one already has one?
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