You raise an important point. TV vs portable devices as the point of convergence. Agreed that the older generation would find it easier to embrace the TV as against the tablets, but growth will be driven by young population wanting personal devices as against TVs which have a more traditional market. Once you have two or three such devices in every home, convergence in TVs would become redundant in my opinion, if not the entire concept of TV!
With the broad band internet and Chrome OS , you don't need a convetional PC in your home , your TV would be able to handle all that functionality and with its larger display it will be much more acceptable to the older generation who cannot twiddle their fingures on those smart phones and watch comfortably their miniature displays. With the TV remote in your hand even an old person or a physically challenged person will able to use the TV for entertainment, infotainment, appliance control , communications and home security.
exactly cloud computing will do miracles with internet based computing it can link to all the service providers, it will definitely become the showstopper.
I will consider goggle has enough potential to impact his change. Their recently proposed chrome net book is actually built to serve the need of the hour. These net books which are in trial phase are actually provided only to t he eligible users to try them and provide feedback to Google on the features. This will have a chrome browser and provides many cloud applications to actually access all these application just by using the browser over the Internet connection.
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