[Periodic]

The interface and outward appearance is simple, but the internals most certainly are not. There are still hundreds of components from dozens of manufacturers combined to make a physical product. In the case of the iPhone there's one of the largest mobile operating systems on there.

Computer chips are getting more and more complex as well, now with more levels of caching and inter-core communication.

I think we have a long way to go before we get simpler computers, but that does cause us to wonder if we will get to the point that they are just too complex.

[rbanffy]

> In the case of the iPhone there's one of the largest mobile operating systems on there.

Still, it's a lot simpler than a desktop computer - fewer parts, no moving ones... Splines' idea makes a lot of sense.

[pyre]

I think that he meant complex in terms of inner structure, not user interface. Many of the previous mobile operating systems were pretty complex (from a user interface level) even though they only had a limited number of tasks you could do with them.