{"id":479,"date":"2004-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-13T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/11\/14\/412\/"},"modified":"2004-11-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-13T23:00:00","slug":"412","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/11\/14\/412\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplicity is &#8217;next big thing&#8216; in IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Macworld UK &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.co.uk\/news\/index.cfm?NewsID=10001\">Macworld UK &#8211; Simplicity is &#8217;next big thing&#8216; in IT &#8211; Economist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;The Economist Magazine this week has published an IT survey, which declares the single message of simplicity Apple to have preached since its inception as &#8222;the next big thing&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;The next thing in technology is not just big but truly huge: the conquest of complexity&#8220;, the Economist explains. It talks about how &#8222;most of us&#8220; find technology frustrating, infuriating and sometimes tortuous at times. The title is trying to assess the work done by the IT industry to simplify matters.<\/p>\n<p>The survey looks at two recent consumer-technology successes: Apple&#8217;s iPod and Google. Writer, Andreas Kluth, said: &#8222;Google and the iPod are successful because each rescues consumers from a particular black hole of complexity&#8220;.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macworld UK &#8211; Macworld UK &#8211; Simplicity is &#8217;next big thing&#8216; in IT &#8211; Economist: &#8222;The Economist Magazine this week has published an IT survey, which declares the single message of simplicity Apple to have preached since its inception as &#8222;the next big thing&#8220;. &#8222;The next thing in technology is not just big but truly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}