Telepocalypse

Convergenzzzzzzzzz.......

I'm on a panel tomorrow to debunk convergence. But here's an example from this morning.

My great-great grandfather (up the male side) was Scottish. I live in Scotland. I have a Scottish surname. It's not my job to reinforce national stereotypes, but Scots are known to be careful with their money. Despite being less than a 100% kosher Scotsman, something in my genes must have overwhelmed sense when I saved about $10 a day by choosing a hotel room without a window. But here I am in my den. In a land with approaching perpetual daylight, a room with perpetual darkness.

Last night I went to bed late, and went to sleep even later. Somehow, just one glass of wine is enough to disturb my body clock. (If we put any other industrial solvent in grape juice to get intoxicated, it'd be outlawed in a flash.) I set up my, um, smart phone to give me a morning alarm.

What I'd forgotten what that it was still on "silent" mode. Silent wake-up alarms don't work for me. In fact, even noisy ones have only incomplete success. I think it's the two kids that taught me to sleep through all possible forms of interruption until the full 8 hours of rest was done.

I woke up excruciatingly, shockingly late, with there being no external cues that morning had come. And gone.

So the "converged" device failed because of incompatible, overlapping use cases. And we're just talking about an alarm clock and a phone here, not something really complex.

I wonder how many people in the audience are there to sell "converged services", yet have both a watch and phone on their person?

PS - IPTV sounds much better in Swedish "eee-pee-tee-vee". Still doesn't make any money, though.