All in one OR One by one

It's really savvy to have a gadget that does everything, for instance, a phone which is also a camera, a GPS, a TV remote, an alarm clock, an email reader, a torch light, an mp3 player, a pen drive, and of course an Internet browser. It's great to have everything at one place; but if you notice, on a daily basis, we don't even use 20% of all that a phone is capable of doing (at least, most of us don't).

On the other hand, what do you think of a cannon SLR camera, a SanDisk pen drive, an ipod...blah blah blah. How would you like everything as a different unit? not so fancy, isn't it. My verdict: It's good to specialize in one thing and not dive in all directions to service a customer. I prefer carrying a camera (just a camera) to shoot great snaps, instead of a cell phone which takes average shots.

PS: This reminds me of my computer science days where I learnt about Monolithic applications (Such a geek ;-)).