The boundless creativity of politicians and bureaucrats to develop new and more complex regulation is bounded only by the bureaucracy's inability to implement them. The absolute size of the bureaucracy is constrained by external factors, so the only effect of automation can be to increase bureaucratic complexity.
Parkinson's laws are as valid and insightful as always. If someone by chance have missed them, here they are:
Parkinson's First Law:
Work expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.
Parkinson's Second Law:
Expenditures rise to meet income.
Parkinson's Third Law:
Expansion means complexity; and complexity decay.
Parkinson's Fourth Law:
The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
Parkinson's Fifth Law:
If there is a way to delay an important decision the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.
Parkinson's Law of Delay:
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
Parkinson's Law of Triviality:
The time spent in a meeting on an item is inversely proportional to its value (up to a limit).
Parkinson's Law of 1,000:
An enterprise employing more than 1,000 people becomes a self-perpetuating empire, creating so much internal work that it no longer needs any contact with the outside world.
Parkinson's Coefficient of Inefficiency:
The size of a committee or other decision-making body grows at which it becomes completely inefficient.
You do realise that the marketshare you linked to is for the US only? The situation looks different when considering the world smartphone market. Just sayin...
Worldwide it got 31%, about the same as Symbian. GP's point still valid.
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Uh... guess where the Close Window button in OS X is?..
Uh... guess where you resize windows in OS X and where the file menu is.
The boundless creativity of politicians and bureaucrats to develop new and more complex regulation is bounded only by the bureaucracy's inability to implement them. The absolute size of the bureaucracy is constrained by external factors, so the only effect of automation can be to increase bureaucratic complexity.
Parkinson's laws are as valid and insightful as always. If someone by chance have missed them, here they are:
Parkinson's First Law:
Work expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.
Parkinson's Second Law:
Expenditures rise to meet income.
Parkinson's Third Law:
Expansion means complexity; and complexity decay.
Parkinson's Fourth Law:
The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
Parkinson's Fifth Law:
If there is a way to delay an important decision the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.
Parkinson's Law of Delay:
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
Parkinson's Law of Triviality:
The time spent in a meeting on an item is inversely proportional to its value (up to a limit).
Parkinson's Law of 1,000:
An enterprise employing more than 1,000 people becomes a self-perpetuating empire, creating so much internal work that it no longer needs any contact with the outside world.
Parkinson's Coefficient of Inefficiency:
The size of a committee or other decision-making body grows at which it becomes completely inefficient.
You do realise that the marketshare you linked to is for the US only? The situation looks different when considering the world smartphone market. Just sayin...
Worldwide it got 31%, about the same as Symbian. GP's point still valid.
I suspect that google is not serious about chrome.
I suspect you didn't read this article?