Funny that you should choose a blender for the analogy. Many other things that could be used for an analogy have been absorbed into the converged device that i

Funny that you should choose a blender for the analogy. Many other things that could be used for an analogy have been absorbed into the converged device that is a tablet or a phone or a proper PC or even a console. Because of this there are not a lot of analogies left. However, I think the mountain bike is perhaps a better analogy, with 'off road' being no keyboard/mouse. In the early 90's mountain bikes sold like hot cakes, people would upgrade to the latest model (with even more gears) and eventually every able-bodied person had some lame MTB that was fairly useless on paved roads and not really that great off-road. Eventually people came to their senses and the realised a normal road bike or a 'hybrid' bike would actually be better for going from A to B (rather than some mountain they never really needed to get to). The mountain bike market didn't die, it just evolved to what we have now, with most so-called mountain bikes being cheap junk - 'bicycle shaped objects'. Despite the plethora of such rubbish there is a smaller market for 'proper' mountain bikes that is doing fine, an established market. However, there was a time - decades ago - when many bicycle shops could not give road bikes away, every sale was for a mountain bike. At least the tablet craze never got so mad that all other devices where blotted out of the market.