The Forgotten Delicious

February 23, 2008 at 3:05 pm · Filed under programming, software, websites

Matt Ball writes about the tendency of “delicious generation” apps to become abandonware.

That’s fine by me. My biggest problem with them is that they seem to be composed almost entirely of lightweight to-do list applications and other such “my first real program” homework assignments.

http://www.anxietyapp.com/
http://hogbaysoftware.com/products/taskpaper
http://www.culturedcode.com/things/
http://www.objectivesatisfaction.com/what_todo/
http://www.jimmcgowan.net/Site/DoIt.html
http://www.nomicro.com/Products/ToDo/
http://www.magnetismstudios.com/MonkeyBusinessLabs/Checkmarker
http://www.bluehenley.com/products/dobedo/
http://www.mygnu.com/julius/proj_todo.html
http://www.myownapp.com/istk_app.html
http://www.intuiware.com/Products/MacOSX/HotPlan/
http://www.myownapp.com/meinkopp_app.html
http://www.desertsandsoftware.com/?todo_home
http://www.orionbelt.com/productMac.php
http://a-sharp.com/opal/opal

Nice icons and websites though. Makes me wonder where the developers’ real strengths lay.

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  1. Ruido blanco said,

    January 27, 2009 @ 9:15 am

    links from Technorati#233; y casi no sirve para nada). El artículo en cuestión creo que era este (enlace roto), que desgraciadamente ni Google ni Archive han conseguido mantener para la posteridad, aunque podéis leer extractos y opiniones aquí, aquí, aquí yaquí. Viendo como funciona la App Store me he dado cuenta de que es un caldo de cultivo para aplicaciones “fire and forget”: las ventas iniciales dan dinero, las actualizaciones no ¿para qué vas a gastar dinero y tiempo en

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