jake olsen

I don’t get it, I still don’t get it.

Active Desktop was a huge failure. Introducing the reincarnate: Gadgets!

Everybody wants to be on the desktop so badly, that they create a development environment for any new jack to create some “useful” tools. What this assumes of users is they want to install a 3rd party application just to run some novelty applications (widgets), which could open them up to new security holes, for minimal benefit. Downloads are the new pageviews?

Far from a killer app, these “things” remind me of the walking through the checkout line at the grocery store, and seeing all the crap they think I will buy impulsively. Junk.

Is the browser now going to be a command line for these “things”? Really, you could just download Bonzi Buddy, Weatherbug, Webshots, and call it good. That’s a joke.

Om Malik calls it correctly:

“A million new ways to get hacked.”

–jake