Simple is Better

It is still causing long lines at the electronics stores.What is it? Here’s how Damon Darlin described it in the Wall Street Journal:

The machine is dimwittedly simple. The console itself is hardly bigger than a DVD. It lacks the deep rich graphics, the rumbling sound and many of the violent games of the Microsoft Xbox 360.

Now that we’ve got one, I have to admit that the beauty is in the box’s simplicity. It is intuitive and wonderfully uncomplicated.

Could this, along with iPhones and “netbooks” signal a move toward less complex, more “esay does it” engineering and product design? I hope so.