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Originally Posted by Hugh
And household washing machines have been about for about 90 years, and household modems about 20.  (and with the washing machine you have soap powder, clothes, electricity, and the machine - modem/routers you have the cable infrastructure, the modem/router, the PC, the multitude of software on PC, wireless/wired connection, the site being connected to, etc etc...) |
Sorry, I'm missing your point. It seems I should expand on mine: modern household washing machines have scores of different programmes; modern consumer cameras also have scores of features. How many of those programmes and features do "most people" use - how many simply leave the camera on 'auto' at all times, or use the same programme for every wash? Your point was "consumer items would be too complex for the mass market" with too many facilities; the mass market has shown it is perfectly able to ignore facilities it doesn't need.