dumbed down

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dumbed down - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  dumbed down
  
     <jargon> Simplified, with a strong connotation of
     *over*simplified.  Often, a marketroid will insist that the
     interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after
     the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil making
     it smart.  This creates friction.
  
     See user-friendly.
  
     (1995-04-14)
  

dumbed down - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  dumbed down
   adj.
  
     Simplified, with a strong connotation of oversimplified. Often, a
     marketroid will insist that the interfaces and documentation of
     software be dumbed down after the designer has burned untold gallons
     of midnight oil making it smart. This creates friction. See
     user-friendly.