(Caution: electronics geekery ahead, if that ain't yer bag, skip to your next post ( Read more... )

A nice little turn of topical events happened a day or two after my first article regarding hardware obsolescence and how the physical hardware has taken a back seat to the services they are increasingly tied to (and the monthly fee that inevitably follows. The New York times has a page declaring that the hardware itself is now what you are ( Read more... )

Times have changed. At one time, people would purchase durable goods for the long run. Televisions, radios, telephones, etc. The value was intrinsically in the device, as well as what you did with it and what it was capable of. An AM transistor radio was a durable companion that provided entertainment wherever you happened to be. The big console ( Read more... )