Srsly? A top 10 list! Don't the major search engines have bots that create articles like yours? Aside from the hipsters in the lower Manhattan area I don't know who else is questioning these items or making the "smart"phone the electro-king. The mobile is a "Jack of all trades, master..." finish this sentence in your head. The Cloud with its monthly charge can never replace a heavy-duty external HDD. Only folks with cigarette boats can afford that waste. As for blu-ray you're on your own. I'll jump from DVDs to flash or mini-DVDs or whatever. BD -now- is overrated when you consider upscaling hardware can do a decent job of improving the pic with fewer Gb of video.