Too many gadget choices: product lines simplify as fatigue sets in

Joshua Topolsky at The Verge:

I pressed the companies on whether or not technology manufacturers were simply producing too many gadgets, outpacing real consumer demand with iterative, insubstantial changes. “Are we creating demand where there isn’t any?” I asked.

He makes an interesting point. One of the issues we hear all the time about CES is that there is just “too much”. Too much of everything. As Topolsky says, “For a journalist, it’s daunting — for shoppers, it’s starting to seem impossible.”