6-endangered-tech-species: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance"Picking up an Apple iPad or clamoring for Amazon's(NasdaqGS: AMZN - News) Kindle? You may as well get a DVD player, too, as their combined usefulness is on the clock.
The future of technology is integration, something Apple's iPhone and Google's Android products have a better grasp of than, say, Garmin's personal navigation devices or Acer's netbooks. Though there seems to be enough room for everyone -- with the Commerce Department finding last week that American spending on tech items increased 1.8% from 2007 through the first six months of this year while spending on appliances, furniture and clothing declined -- analysts agree that the only thing separating some gadgets from the grave is the size of their displays.
'Handsets aren't going to cannibalize televisions anytime soon, because users want a big-screen media-playback experience that can be accommodated in the home,' says Ross Rubin, an analyst for NPD Group. 'However, handsets may cannibalize Blu-ray players at some point because, as bandwidth improves and we see more media on demand and HDMI outputs or wireless features built into the phone, it could take on the functionality of a Roku device or Blu-ray player.'
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