iDumbization is a composite word from two words (noun "inteligence" + adjective "dumb") and it has been firstly used by forum user known as BKF1. By this term was defined period initiated since was released new mobile device called iPhone produced by Apple Inc. Many people has noticed that iPhone has started oversimplification wave of mobile phone devices resulting mostly in radical limitation or even complete elimination of functions and elimination of essential hardware control elements like D-Pad and other buttons. Fans of this iDumbization wave argue that these functions and hardware control elements are completelly useless because you can replace it fully with software solutions but opponents argue that these functions are essential as the hardware control elements which provides non-interchangeable way of controling any device (e.g. you cannot feel software button on touch display because display is completelly flat). In short by this therm shoud be defined any oversimplified solution what is explained by large group of people over the world as clever and inteligent solution (e.g. imagine classic car with driving wheel and foot pedals replaced with four cursor keys from PC keyboard; some people say it is stupid solution but some say it's inteligent simple solution).
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