The author seems to present two main points in this essay: 1. I have a lot of really cool brand new stuff. 2. Instead of having 100 different UI's, let's have

The author seems to present two main points in this essay: 1. I have a lot of really cool brand new stuff. 2. Instead of having 100 different UI's, let's have less. Is there any value in either? Half bragging and half common sense does not an engaging essay make. And while I appreciate what I understand to be his second point, I don't think it's necessarily right. Sometimes it makes sense to have more or less buttons on something, depending on its functions. A TV remote with anything less than 20 buttons is probably useless. A UI which does not take advantage of the wide-ranging input is equally useless. A car's GPS can't really work well with just 2 or 3 physical buttons, and vanilla Android is obviously ill-fitting, even with a touch screen. The author, a serious Mac user, shouldn't even be satisfied with OSX. Has he read the UNIX Hater's Handbook? It criticizes OSX's underlying operating system with the same points he makes against everything but his beloved iToys. I have a simple solution to the problem of too many UIs. Stop buying so much shit. Keep the growth of technology in check by voting with your wallet, and keep your mind clear by not filling it up with anything other than what is absolutely necessary. Use your phone as your GPS and TV remote. Watch TV on your computer. You can really reduce a lot of your bulk, both in terms of hardware and software, by getting more out of what you already have. [Obligatory comment against software patents.]