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From Forbes.com: Technology News:
Every electronics maker claims its devices play nice with others. A handful actually do.
Paul Ryder hired by Amazon.com 18 months ago, has spent most of his career at GE Appliances and then at Honeywell's avionics group. He loves gadgets--as do his two adolescent sons, who scored an iPod Nano and electric guitar during the holidays.
Ryder contends there are two types of convergence: the capable and the excellent.
Devices that merely rate as "capable," Ryder says, include most of the set-top boxes and game consoles like the Xbox360 or the PlayStation3--products that can receive and send content from elsewhere in the house, if consumers can figure out how to do it. And that is still too hard.
"Excellence" is achieved by those devices that represent the nirvana state of electronics that simply work together without any fussing by the consumer.
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