Hi,
I'm trying to think of products, services, creatures or things that do the job of many things but actually better. So in my opinion a bad example is a Swiss army knife. It's convenient but hasn't replaced the individual items like knives and scissors etc. I.e. most would still prefer to prepare dinner with a chef's knife rather than their Swiss army knife. So I don't want a "jack of all trades but master of none" but I also understand I need to limit my expectations 😁
So what exists where the one thing did replace the many? I'm struggling to think of examples. The iPhone is one obvious one where it replaced lots of things but in particular the phone, camera and mp3 player. The one major issue that I have with it is that it's much more expensive than an individual phone, camera and mp3 player but you could argue that it does all three better than the individuals do.
They don't have to be recent.
I'm trying to think of products, services, creatures or things that do the job of many things but actually better. So in my opinion a bad example is a Swiss army knife. It's convenient but hasn't replaced the individual items like knives and scissors etc. I.e. most would still prefer to prepare dinner with a chef's knife rather than their Swiss army knife. So I don't want a "jack of all trades but master of none" but I also understand I need to limit my expectations 😁
So what exists where the one thing did replace the many? I'm struggling to think of examples. The iPhone is one obvious one where it replaced lots of things but in particular the phone, camera and mp3 player. The one major issue that I have with it is that it's much more expensive than an individual phone, camera and mp3 player but you could argue that it does all three better than the individuals do.
They don't have to be recent.
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