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You know what annoys me most about mobile devices? We ditched a document-centric world in favor of an app-centric world.
Years of effort went by to create and enforce document standards compliance among major vendors, where all you needed to open a document was to click on the document and either have it handled by the standard app for it or select from a list of choices an app implementing the standard. HTML5, PDF, many xml-based formats all come from such efforts.
Major monopolists such as Apple and Microsoft didn't like it and are now actively pushing instead for an app-centric world, each app implementing its own proprietary formats.
All one really needs in the near future is html5 and a compliant web-browser, be it for video, audio or book consumption, all in one.
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