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The flip side of this is when overenthusiastic minimalism makes something useless, like in The Onion's ad for the revolutionary (hah!) Apple laptop with no keyb
by silentbicycle 17y ago
The flip side of this is when overenthusiastic minimalism makes something useless, like in The Onion's ad for the revolutionary (hah!) Apple laptop with no keyboard, the "MacBook Wheel" (http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revol...).
- NathanKP 17y agoThe whole point in my mind is that Apple goes just so far to make minimalism useful, but not so far that it is irritating. That is what I like about Apple products, that they are usefully minimalist. The "MacBook wheel" is not a product Apple would make because it is unbalanced to far in the opposite direction.
- jcl 17y ago...which is amusing in the context of the recent media buzz about Apple creating a tablet computer that doesn't even have a wheel. :)