The Flip video camera Cisco discontinued this week marks the latest casualty in consumers’ migration to all-in-one gadgets. But what do we lose as our gadgets gain?
Smartphones have become 21st century Swiss Army knives that play media, give directions, take pictures and place calls, yet are smaller than point-and-shoot cameras and cost only slightly more. With the help of a few apps, they can replace everything from a newspaper to an MP3 player to Cisco’s now-extinct handheld camcorder.
