How to Bring Good Design to a Platform ⇥

Marco Arment:

Aggressively pursue simplification, elegance, craftsmanship, and the highest-class user experiences in the product line. Ruthlessly cut or hold features or entire products that aren’t good enough.

There are a number of companies that could learn from this list. The point above, in particular, is abused on a nearly constant basis to the detriment of end users.