On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Anselm R Garbe <anselm_AT_garbe.us> wrote:
> On 1 February 2010 13:30, <stanio_AT_cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>> experts rule: Actually they don't want! Ever seen a suckless car, or
>> mobile phone?
>
> There was the DDR Trabant, which I consider quite close to a suckless
> car: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant
>
> As for a mobile phone I'd say that the iphone is quite suckless in
> some respects. Afaik its UI is not very customisable and it runs only
> 1 app at a time which is a nice restriction and eliminates a whole
> bunch of problems (well and has positive side-effect on power
> consumption as well).
I hate apple and the iphone with passion, but this is one thing they
got completely right: all the morons that claim they need to waste
their life fiddling around with stupid colors and shit have been
proven wrong by the millions of people that use iPhones without any
need for such crap.
uriel
> Cheers,
> Anselm
>
>
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