wb.engadget.com — While Donald Norman says "Simplicity is highly overrated", and Joel Spolsky agrees with him, Nokia's 1100 with "over 200 million sales" does not have MP3 ringtones, camera, video recording, 3G, EDGE, GPRS, BlueTooth, IrDA, WiFi, push-to-talk, touch screen or even a cool design. So simplicity sells or not? What do you think?
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zandrMay 20, 2007
Its not simplicity that matters here, its the price of the cell phone. People in developing countries dont have the money to buy high end phones. And such people are in majority in the world. Thats why they buy this phone. Got it?
mucahidzMay 21, 2007Submitter
Of course :) What I am trying to say is you can not win by just one strategy. You should create a great product mix, and make everyone happy. Make gadget lovers happy with lots and lots of features. Sell them the cutting edge technology, "The multimedia computers". And make budget consumers happy with a "phone" that is affordable. I just didn't wrote all this above because of the 250 char limit, and it was late at night - I was about to fall asleep, so I didn't add any comments neither. I live in other part of the world, in a "developing country", that both expensive and budget phones sell very well.