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Your first paragraph falls under the "Pocket Exception" (proposed by Jesse Schell). If it's in your pocket, you want it to converge. If it's not in your pocket,
by acgourley 16y ago
Your first paragraph falls under the "Pocket Exception" (proposed by Jesse Schell). If it's in your pocket, you want it to converge. If it's not in your pocket, its going to specialize. To steal his example: the swiss army knife is a great pocket device, but you'd never use a giant swiss army knife in your kitchen.
- dkarl 16y agoYou must not live in an apartment :-) Have you seen the number of buttons on a modern rice cooker? Some rice cookers incorporate pseudo-pressure cooking, and some are even genuine pressure cookers. There are also combination convection/microwave ovens, and I love my combination immersion blender and food processor precisely because it serves two purposes in the same space as either one. It doesn't crush ice or blend as easily as the old stand-alone blender I had, but I compromised on features to save space. (It also has fewer parts and is easier to clean than the stand-alone blender or the dedicated food processor I used to have, so convergence didn't compromise usability.)
- acgourley 16y agoSo then maybe the pocket exception should be renamed space exception, and now it explains Japanese appliances well.