The flip side of this is when overenthusiastic minimalism makes something useless, like in The Onion's ad for the revolutionary (hah!) Apple laptop with no keyboard, the "MacBook Wheel" (http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revol...).
The whole point in my mind is that Apple goes just so far to make minimalism useful, but not so far that it is irritating. That is what I like about Apple products, that they are usefully minimalist.
The "MacBook wheel" is not a product Apple would make because it is unbalanced to far in the opposite direction.
