Nintendo took what many thought was quite a risk by releasing the Wii in 2006: a game system that was much less powerful than either the XBox360 or the Playstation 3. BackBlaze and other cloud backup services took off from here and provide unlimited backup storage for your files, all handled automatically without you having to do anything. Others jumped on the bandwagon and now you also have OneDrive and even iCloud Drive.

And it was free to use (for a small amount of storage). Plus it also worked as a sort of backup for many people without a lot of files. It eliminates any fear of editing your pictures because you can always go back to the original with just a single click.įirst it was Dropbox, which made it stupidly simple to share files across your devices. People love taking pictures and Photos makes it simple to manage your pictures. I’ve convinced more people to get a Mac by showing them the Photos app (and iPhotos before that) than any other reason. It became a phenomenon precisely because of this. You can explain the rules in less than a minute. Now Apple is the largest company on the planet and has just recently passed $1 trillion in market cap, largely based on the iPhone, so it seems like their vision worked out OK for them. But it had enough and the lack of features certainly didn’t hurt sales. Sure, Apple took a bit of flak for the iPhone not having all the features that some expected for a smart phone. She certainly couldn’t do that on my Samsung cell phone.

My daughter, who was 5 years old at the time, was able to pick up the iPhone take pictures, play music and make a call without us showing her how. In fact, when the iPhone was first released we stopped at an AT&T store to check it out. Apple took a step back and created a phone that anyone could use. Back in 2007 before the iPhone came out, nearly everyone had a cell phone and nearly everyone hated their cell phone. Perhaps the best known case of taking something that was complex and providing a simple alternative is the iPhone. But other than being cool, what are some reasons you should put more effort into simplifying your software? Because simple sells. Simplicity is a popular topic these days. Many years ago I did a presentation about this as a 'lightning talk' in a conference keynote. Software Made Simple has been my slogan for as long as I've been developing software.

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