The old Etch A Sketch was difficult and cumbersome, but with enough time and effort you could do a lot better than that.
That's functional, but obviously more cumbersome than just grabbing your phone (that's probably nearby anyway) to perform a search or load a webpage.
Users say processing transactions with mobile readers — small attachments that plug into a phone's headset jack — is quicker, cheaper and less cumbersome than using the old machines that make hard-copy imprints of cards and are called "knuckle busters" in industry slang.
The ease of operation in using characteristic representation is obviously evident than that in performing cumbersome operations of numbers.
Tablets, with their larger touchscreens that are less cumbersome than laptops, lend themselves naturally to long-form content consumption, and that is spawning a new breed of services to fit the bill.
Instead, we ended up with a rather uninspiring and cumbersome rail link that cost $15 billion, more than twice the estimated pricetag.
The registration system may be a bit more cumbersome than other online sites, and that can hurt conversions to some extent, admits David Binetti, Votizen Co-Founder and CEO, but the end result is a database of authenticated, registered voters.
It's a natural side-effect of including a physical keyboard that's worth using, but the end result may well be a device that's more cumbersome than the competition when used in tablet mode.
And in classical Hollywood there was no technology more sensitive to those properties than three-strip Technicolor, an expensive and cumbersome process that resembled stone lithography more than the dot-matrix pointillism of today's digital processes.
