* 3D:- The entire exhilaration that the concept created of driving the viewer to the new 3D wonderland died almost as soon as it came out. Or maybe the floodgates of expectations doomed all the euphoria. Nineteen 3D movies came out(You: How the hell did you pull up those numbers? Me: Click Here) and they kind of evolved and brought us acoss a 2010ish cinema or Cinema 2.0, as many call it. If you ask me, many of them were simply amazing, a piece of art I would say. But 3D at home is till date a No-No.. I am simply not being a luddite with this, but setting up and maintaining 3D is a pain. Wearing 3D glasses every time is an even bigger. THEY SUCK BIG TIME!! Then there are also warnings that 3D TV manufacturers themselves give about the exposure to certain radiations and stuff..
The only thing that's great about it is, you get a home TV thats aeons ahead of it's time.
* Digital photo frames are still struggling to survive. This time on a heavy dose of steroids.Till the last year it was only the touch- enabled mobile devices and media players that were head on with it but now they also have a superstar Tablet. This is kinda competition that is too hard to swallow for a wacko & disgusting device that it is. The tablet simply scores on portability when pitted against it. Truth be told, I feel the device will scythe its way through at least in the commercial sphere of it's utility but only for an year or two. And that I say considering the economics of reality, for a Tablet is dang expensive today.
* Skype Phones: Skype, found by Swedish entrepreneur Niklas Zennström and Dane Janus Frii in 2003 has been very successful. It's success is evident from the fact that 'Call me' has become 'Skype me'. And that's pretty much a global phenomenon, atleast for International Long Distance Calls. Skype in a way did exactly what google did to search.
What I think is a turkey in the entire Skype saga is the Skype Phone. After years of being there in the market place, the phone couldn't undertake the journey from the board room to the living room. And that's certainly disappointing if you take into account the fact that an epic proportion of Urban Indian households are well connected to the internet.
That isn't a hard nut to crack if you tie the knot between a cordless phone and a skype phone and most importantly make it available in India. Who wouldn't love free calls from a cordless device..
For all the Naysayer to that thought of mine, here I come. I accept the fact that a Skype app is available for the Iphone, Android and Symbian devices (except for the unlucky Blackberry boys, the league I am in) and it does even allow you to make calls.The defacto is that in the past couple of years(predominantly the post Iphone era), the mobile phone emerged as the mighty Device but only with a battery that failed to play it's divine part..
And this certainly reasserts the need for standalone devices as well.
* Ebooks: This is one reason that makes Ebook readers a toy only fit for fat-old bastards with a lot of extra moolah to spend. Well not exactly the ebook but ebook prices. Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google, Kobo etc are the convicts here. These snobby avantgarde blokes are not allowing a flamboyant reading experince to take off. You guys suck for so bullish pricing of yours. I crown you with the title of the most opulent and full of grandeur advocates of super duper crap.
That's because if you compare the pricing of books vs. their digital renditions on the Amazon store, you'll see some e-books are more expensive than regular books and vice-versa in other cases. Next, if you compare the prices between the Kindle e-book store (where you're paying in US dollars) and Indian stores like the Wink Store or Infibeam, you'll find that most of the copies on the Kindle store are actually cheaper than the Indian stores. To make matters worse, the Wink Store doesn't have most of the books and the Infibeam store's pricing for some e-books is just outrageous despite them having a good collection.
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Will the ebooks succeed? Surely it will. Let the frugality set-in..
Very gracious of you to have come this far. Thanks for being so generous with your time.
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