simplicity
by sari and · updated 1mo ago
simplicity
A great story about simplicity from Akio Morita, the instigator of the Walkman project at Sony:
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Engineers had the technology to add the recording function to the Walkman and it would’ve cost only 50 cents to a dollar per unit. Morita decided against it. He wanted the device to have one function, which it performs very well. Walkman should only playsari added 1mo ago
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