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Microsoft is killing the PC or Why the console market must be integrated
Rory is answering a quote that Microsoft is killing the PC. In it he states the following:
Specialization is a good thing.
[Via Neopoleon.com]
Couple the discussion Rory is doing with the works by Clayton Christensen in Innovators Dilemma and Innovators Solution. In my humble dissection it would go like this:
The PC is not-good-enough for playing games, it doesn’t perform good enough for a specific market segment. In order to increase performance, producers have to integrate, and create interdependent systems. This will convert the consoles to a good-enough-world, and they market can disintegrate and become modular again.
Anyway, read the books by Clay Christensen, he’s (thankfully) much better in explaining this than me 
In case you’re lazy listen to a talk from IT Conversations about the same topic.
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