Seth Godin posts:
The people who make desktop software are making themselves obsolete. When you start developing on the web, your default is to be smart, to interact and to be open (with other software and with your users). Desktop software (like Word) is insanely unaware of what I do, why I do it and who I do it with. Right now, the desktop folks have the momentum of the incumbent. Not for long. Time to hurry.
I was going to write something with more vitriol, but now I feel that this quote is mostly sufficient. I will say that I'm tired of "technology" press treating Twitter, Facebook, and the rest of the mainstream web as the only software worth developing.
(In fairness, pop-tech media occasionally covers wizzy multitouch demos and OS X minor version releases.)
In the age of rapid cycles and connected data, how long are we going to have to settle for dumb software?
In the age of technology blowhards and armchair developers, how long are we going to have to settle for this kind of empty reasoning?