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Originally Posted by eschwartz
So, we have fragmentation for the sake of fragmentation. Oh well.
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This is not what I meant.
Otherwise, your world would have been made of a single object that does everything for you: cooks, makes coffee, play music, videos and books, help you with transportation, runs games onto, work the land (agriculture), catches the fish, hunts the bears, goes to Mars and back, and so on.
That several products exists, is a strong indication that diversity is needed. Also that a format that fits one particular object doesn't fit another as perfect as the first.
Taking an eReader for example, it can display statically a text or image, and re-paginates (reflow) a text made to flow. It doesn't require a backlit (like computers, tablets or smartphones do) but it's slow. So long lasting, no backlit, but slow. On the other hand, smartphones and smarttabs are small enough to have a good overview of a concept - scrolling and/or small prints are often required (zoom in - zoom out - drag -click) - both a nuisance for older people and/or aged view. Computers are fine for everything except that they are big (even laptops) and need energy (low mobility). Tablets may be the golden cut, but not they are free from disadvantages (cannot be read at the beach).
And finally, if a single format would be the goal, why there are photos different from text?