Andrei Herasimchuk: > I've never heard anyone in the software > industry ever make the claim they makes things complicated on purpose.
They don't need to *claim* that they make it so, but if, for example, you observe that the vendors of expensive enterprise software (in the high six, seven figures) get a very significant portion of their revenue from product-specific training, coaching, certification, installation, etc., and that the very low priority they place on the obvious simplification of their products, you can hardly avoid the conclusion that it's not in their business interest to de-complicate. (The degree of complication/obfuscation is very often decoupled from domain-specific requirements.) The canonical example of this is the Allchin's Windows Tax whereby even the simplest utilities got overly complicated in order to hook into and perpetuate the Windows money machine. That said, there's a thin line between intent and ability (to make things simpler). -- Kontra http://counternotions.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
