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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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