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Why are light switches so complicated? by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 02/28/2013, 1:59am PST
There are some people who, no matter how much you simplified something, they'd have something to complain about, either that it was too hard to use, or, conversely, it was too simple.

I dare suspect that there are people who would complain they have too many choices to make when using a light switch!

But you can make some things too easy. A manufacturer of a complete cake mix back in the 1970s had a fairly good product, but it wasn't selling that well. Turns out they'd made it too easy, women felt it had taken all the decision making out of making a cake. The company changed the formula to take the powdered egg out, so that housewives now had to add an egg to complete the recipe. Sales of the product skyrocketed because now the consumer had something to do to make the cake, e.g. cracking an egg, and not merely just adding water.
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Why are light switches so complicated? by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 02/28/2013, 1:59am PST NEW
    Haha! People sure are crazy, huh Paul? NT by There's just no reasoning with them 02/28/2013, 9:44am PST NEW
    Maybe the powdered egg tasted like shit? NT by Mischief Maker 02/28/2013, 9:49am PST NEW
        Do you have to keep proving you have no intelligence? by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 02/28/2013, 11:02am PST NEW
            Yes MM, you fucking idiot! The quality of ingredients have no effect on taste! by Eurotrash 02/28/2013, 1:47pm PST NEW
                And again, you still don't get it, it wasn't the egg by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 02/28/2013, 5:19pm PST NEW
                    FCC regulations prevent him from naming the cake mix. NT by Effigial 1970s Housewife 02/28/2013, 5:40pm PST NEW
                        That's not it, I don't know who they were by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 03/08/2013, 7:14am PST NEW
                            Yes. Yes. We get it. You are a fucking idiot. NT by Let it lie. 03/08/2013, 1:05pm PST NEW
                                Since you know so much about being an idiot, when did you discover you're one? NT by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 03/08/2013, 6:45pm PST NEW
                                    The first time I replied to one of your posts. It's like if I saw a howling by retard in the street, and start 03/08/2013, 9:03pm PST NEW
                            I'm still not buying it. by Mischief Maker 03/08/2013, 7:11pm PST NEW
                    Yesss I get it. The bored, stupid women wanted something to do, by Eurotrash 03/01/2013, 12:14am PST NEW
                        Hey everyone in this thread: you're arguing with the morbidly obese creator of NT by Slop(tm) about ingredients. 03/01/2013, 5:04am PST NEW
            Re: Do you have to keep proving you have no intelligence? by Mischief Maker 02/28/2013, 7:35pm PST NEW
                Gordon Ramsay just wants to feel important with his real potatoes. NT by He could just microwave TV dinners. 03/01/2013, 5:07am PST NEW
                    Waitaminit! I see what's going on here! by Mischief Maker 03/01/2013, 7:56am PST NEW
 
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