It's curious that the PC model of selling the customers relatively modular systems is rapidly falling by the wayside in favour of highly integrated systems, whi

It's curious that the PC model of selling the customers relatively modular systems is rapidly falling by the wayside in favour of highly integrated systems, which at their logical extremes are completely unmodifiable. We've crossed the point at which system integration outside of the SoC is going to get less valuable very fast. PCs are clearly headed this way too, but it means economies of scale for particular configurations are going to be much harder to come by.