@cosuna Not sure there's anything to "deny". It's still too early in the game to know where we're definitively going. But I've often said that as HDTVs became TRULY pervasive (90+% penetration) and as the next generation turns into working adults and have grown up with gaming consoles, consoles may become the next platform for engaging in Net activities. Microsoft is well positioned in this respect with the XBox platform. Then again Google is making its own move with Google TV. Given that the top 3 activities in the home are web surfing (social network activity included), email and gaming, once Google's Chrome browser debuts on TVs, there will be even less reason to have a PC in the home as compared to times past.
Sure there's some of us that will always have a PC or Mac because we want to run some media server and have gobs of files but there are plenty of people who just don't fit into that bucket. A big reason people need a personal computer is store their music files. Using myself as an example, my music library, which I've paid for, far surpasses anything anything I've created in terms of disk space usage. The iPad has shown that most people are content consumers not content producers.
I see a day when you'll create playlists in the cloud and pull down music to your mobile device accordingly. A music service just needs to keep a single master copy of each song and a simple list of what "you own". When things like 100 megabits down and USB 3.0 transfers became pervasive, this isn't outside the realm of possibility. Bandwidth changes everything. People would have been hard pressed to have seen video on demand being wildly successful ten years ago, e.g., Netflix. Imagine what things will look like in another ten years.
-M
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