[Artoemius]

An elucidating quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:

"It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove."

[lostlogin]

This sort of attitude leaves us without headphone jacks on our phones.

[khedoros1]

Only if you get to the "nothing left to remove point", and then remove something else. It's best for something to be minimal, as long as it's not also insufficient.

[combatentropy]

Which is why Albert Einstein said it better: "Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler."

[dingaling]

Though what he actually said was:

It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.

which isn't quite as catchy.

[Zikes]

Feature Golf

[ctdonath]

Wireless headphones are a thing for half of users now.

The example you're looking for, and everyone has properly forgotten about, is the short-lived "no UI" iPod Shuffle.

[JetSpiegel]

Nothing more to add while retaining functionality. Otherwise remove everything.

[baddox]

Fine by me. I got that phone on release day, and the negativity about the jack removal has caused me much more annoyance than the removal itself.