{"id":52,"date":"2006-08-01T06:55:57","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T22:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=52"},"modified":"2006-11-03T11:36:15","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T03:36:15","slug":"mobiles-phones-are-a-victim-of-complexity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Mobiles phones are a victim of complexity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the consistently thought provoking blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.experientia.com\/blog\/misunderstood-phones\/\">Putting People First comes this gob-smacking statistic <\/a>:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;63% of mobile devices returned [for repair] are in perfect working order&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While not reknowned for being an innovator, Vodafone has certainly started to address this when it introduced &#8216;simple&#8217; handsets.  Although aimed at older users (read : Silver Surfers)  it&#8217;s a fairly safe guess that they would have found a market which extends beyond that.<\/p>\n<p>After all, it&#8217;s a classic rule of technology products that 80% of your users will only use 20% of your product&#8217;s features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the consistently thought provoking blog Putting People First comes this gob-smacking statistic : &#8220;63% of mobile devices returned [for repair] are in perfect working order&#8221; While not reknowned for being an innovator, Vodafone has certainly started to address this when it introduced &#8216;simple&#8217; handsets. Although aimed at older users (read : Silver Surfers) it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}