My current device-with-screen line-up.
1) A computer with two screens. The best computer I have ever owned, still fast and versatile and a joy to use. It doesn’t move, though, so…
2) An iPad, which is rad for most cases, but it too big and heavy for when I want to watch Breaking Bad on a train/in the bath, so…
3) A nexus 7, which is light and convenient and holds many hours of TV shows, runs for many hours and outputs decent sound through the headphones jack. It has no cellular connectivity, though, so…
4) An iPhone, which is ideal for making phone calls and sending texts. Games, whilst beautiful in many cases, are poorly thought-through and shallow, as well as barely playtested. So…
5) A PSP… an ancient device that is still like a small miracle, featuring games of great depth and often involving characters from the finest imaginary worlds. It’s slowly dying, though, in terms of both battery and available content, so…
6) A Nintendo 3DS XL. Providing a visual magic trick that I can only describe as “witchcraft” and games with a proven history and exhaustive care and attention, this bad boy is the shit. However, classic gaming doesn’t work well on ANY of the above platforms, so…
7) An ion iCade containing an iPad 1 (jailbroken). This thing is THE SHIT for playing Donkey Kong on.
Of course, none of the above can run Skyrim, so…
8) (in the other room) a PS3.
Conclusion: While it’s possible to “do everything” on most of these devices, it’s still a compromised experience in almost all cases apart from the narrow range of things each device is great for. In order to enjoy/use the current (and historic) collection of electronic stuff, I appear to have ended up with a separate device for each action, which is basically where we were 20 years ago.
I don’t think I have a point, really… apart from to say that THIS IS NOT WHAT IT IS LIKE IN THE FUTURE I IMAGINED, and I seem to spend half my life recharging things.
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Source:
http://anyfidelity.com/the-future-a-recharging-nightmare/