Aehso’s Output

Technical Complexity and Clever Users

From the OSGi blog, this is just too true:

However, sometimes I wonder if our skills are not blinding us from the
complexity we put on the rest of the world. And this is not because we
are so clever and our users are not, it is actually often the other way
around. Users are often too clever to learn unnecessary details and
complexities, they just refuse to bring up the patience.

Too true, most of the time they just will not bother.  This isn’t a new phenomenon either - JVC invent VHS and thirty years later the vast majority of users still cannot program the damn video recorders with any degree of confidence.  Then they do it again with DVD players and recorders that are built for geeks. 

Apple fuelled a revolution in the audio industry with the iPod and it will take a similiar revolution (possibly driven by Intel/Viiv this time) to bring time shifted video to the masses.  No matter how good the content is, the interface needs to be seriously dumbed down.

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