convergence of technology

I was reading the article about media and technology convergence and although I agree with the author that convergence of different technoliges are making a fast progress, I disaggree that convergence itself is that hard; at least as far as finding out what to converge. THat has more to do with marketing and finding out what the consumers want. For example, the cell phone companies always amaze me by their convergence of so many application of the available phones. The author discusses how he was laughed at when he went to purchas a cell phone that was able to just make calls. Ironically, I hardly use my cell phone to make actual phone calls. However, the device itself is my life. It is my alarm in the morning, my entertainment with its games during certain classes, my communication metod at class and work through text messaging... Honestly the only person I actually "call" anymore is my mother and that's because she doesn't know how to use text messaging.