Gadget Wars: “A new breed of consumer-electronics device is emerging
from the computer industry, and with it a new sort of
consumer-electronics company…This fabled “convergence” of the analogue consumer-electronics
world with the digital world of computing has been a long time
coming. But unlike the simple substitution of, say, a digital
camcorder for an analogue one, the new products have
fundamentally different DNA from their predecessors. The new
wave of digital devices not only use PC technology and are
marketed as PC peripherals, but are often made by companies that
have their roots in the PC industry itself.” The Economist