Re:The Collapse of Complex Business Models
by rbanffy on Thursday April 01, 2010 @07:09PM
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> In the case of the iPhone there's one of the largest mobile operating systems on there.
Still, it's a lot simpler than a desktop computer - fewer parts, no moving ones... Splines' idea makes a lot of sense.
I think that he meant complex in terms of inner structure, not user interface. Many of the previous mobile operating systems were pretty complex (from a user interface level) even though they only had a limited number of tasks you could do with them.
Computer chips are getting more and more complex as well, now with more levels of caching and inter-core communication.
I think we have a long way to go before we get simpler computers, but that does cause us to wonder if we will get to the point that they are just too complex.