Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Blog Commentary: Week 6

Seth Godin: What does this remind you of?
Very true assessment.  Companies and sellers often tend to try to reinvent the wheel when releasing a new product, which more often than not works against them.  Sometimes it is best to just do what works.  Actually, most of the time it's best to do that.

I remember using one of the earlier Macintosh computers in my house when I was a kid.  It is true that Core77's assessment of the design of macs being awfully similar throughout the generations, however I believe that is due to the fact that Apple has always held onto the concept of simplicity and whatever is not needed is to be left out.  So extra broader design is simply not necessarily, and so it is not exhibited.  We see this concept especially now with the newest macs, in which Apple stresses the fact that they were design with fewer manufacturing pieces than before.  Again, the company truly has mastered the assertion that less is more.


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