I can see this style of device being accepted if it comes with magazine subscriptions (free reader with your newsweek subscription, reader copies only), but otherwise I would anticipate it flopping. People don't like cash outlay for products to use other products, leading to the razor/razorblade phenomenon.
Well, this at least confirms that Amazon does have absolute power over the Kindle and relegates it to the land of Zune for me. That, and that iRiver's mp3 player has a text reader as well.
The Wii is looking more and more like a tool for weight loss and entertainment in your twilight years than the teenage gamer's choice.""It's a very social thing and it's good exercise... and you don't have to throw a 16-pound (7.25-kg) bowling ball to get results," said Dierbach, who added the competition had people who hardly knew each other cheering and hugging in the span of a few hours. "We just had a ball with it. You think it's your grandkids' game and it's not," she said, noting that Erickson paid for the Wiis in its facilities.
After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found on the bench.
