Not every­one agrees with the devel­op­ment philoso­phies of 37signals, but you can’t deny that they do have some ideas that are spot-on. This, for exam­ple, on print­ers and why they are so damn annoy­ing:

Buy­ing a printer remains the last con­fus­ing part of mod­ern computing. […]

What makes this an even tougher choice is that the prod­ucts look so dif­fer­ent and yet so sim­i­lar. They’re all either black, white, or grey. They’re all roughly the same size, They’re all roughly the same shape. But they still look so different. […]

Sounds like an indus­try await­ing a revolution.

I couldn’t agree more.