The iPhone.
Ring and TXT your friends -- It's a phone! Listen to your music on the go -- It's an MP3 player! Stick it in your car -- It becomes a GPS! Download applications, each a fraction of the cost of a standalone device that would provide similar functionality -- and your iPhone does it all.
But the thing that concerns me is open standards. There's nothing open about the iPhone -- Apple crack down on awry app-makers. The block certain functionality that the iPhone could provide, if you weren't limited by local laws. The onboard music player only plays Apple-approved formats.
The myth of technological convergance is that these technologies provide an open forum, a way for every format, type of media, program, and so on -- free reign of the hardware.
The truth of the matter is that these devices are produced by corporations -- and corporations are only interested in a device that will continue to provide revenue to them.
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