Mobile phones are becoming too complex, according to leading mobile industry design consultant Scott Jenson, resulting in an overhyping of services that few people use. “The mobile phone industry is getting very repetitive,” he told the BBC News website. “Initially it was, the web is hot, the phone is hot, so web plus phone must be hotter…So first we had the WAP fiasco. We had phones are hot, cameras are hot, phones plus cameras are hotter, and that went nowhere…And guess what? We’re doing it all over again with iTunes.”
The article goes on to point out the design strengths of the iPod and the obstacles faced by people wanting to use mobile handsets for everything…which can be overcome, of course.
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