I read that quote in an article I was reading today, and after having recently received two new pieces of shiny technological goodness this week I’ve come to realize the simple yet profound truth it carries
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I like to tinker and discover how things work under the hood, and I especially love to tweak the technology I own to reflect some of my interests , hence the first thing I did with my Verizon blackberry was to wipe the vendor centric OS off the thing and load the original software from blackberry allowing me to slap my Red Sox wallpaper onto the thing without a giant red “V” strung across the top. But I digress.
The things that I use most, be it software, mp3 player, or cell phone are things that are incredibly simple yet perform their specific functions exceedingly well to the point of them being almost intuitive.Transparent. They become part of our lives and we continue on as if we had always had them available to us. For case studies I would ask people to try using an iPod for music, a blackberry for e-mail, generally although not always the case, a motorola cell phone.