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andyring writes "CNN has an interesting article about the increasing trend in electronics to add more and more features, less concise user manuals, and poor marketing, to products, which end up doing nothing more than increasing costs and frustrating users. As an example in the article, most people want cell phones that do one thing - make calls. Yet phones come with games, instant messaging, cameras, etc. You can't even buy a simple cell phone any more. Also cited, 25% of people think they own an HDTV, when the actual number is less than 10%. What can be done to make manufacturers get their heads into the real world?"

Comments

more and more features...

[Mieckowski]

I can see that the author doesn't use emacs.

Finding manufacturers' heads

[metallicagoaltender]

What can be done to make manufacturers get their heads into the real world?

Have they visited their proctologists lately?

Re:two words

[grub]

Or maybe I am just a jaded IT guy?

Maybe jaded against the particular hardware you work with. We have failures among our ~300 PCs every so often, hard disks mainly. The Sun, SGI and (sole) HP machine are damn tanks. When Sol goes red giant in 3 billion years, there will be 4 SGI Origins floating around in space wondering where users went.

Re:RTFM?

[Rick the Red]

So duct-tape your flashlight to your phone like the rest of us.

And you call yourself a nerd!