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What do you mean by the “PC” era? At least with PCs as the dominant computing platform we had files and programs separate from each other. Smartphones began the
by mostlysimilar 4y ago
What do you mean by the “PC” era? At least with PCs as the dominant computing platform we had files and programs separate from each other. Smartphones began the trend of app-bound data.
- gumby 4y agoThe PC era was marked by app-specific file formats and little interchange. To me, when the PC was released it was a shock as I already used to (somewhat) interchangeable file formats on the networked machines we used back then. By the late 90s there were some interchangable formats for photos and audio at least, though often you still had to install plug ins, drivers, codecs etc for various proprietary formats especially video. Basically a silo situation as bad as today.