How can they miss DesktopX
A "widget war" article that neglects Stardock (again)
Thursday, May 19, 2005 by ZubaZ | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Mike Elgan disects the history of Apple's Dashboard but his version goes MS Active desktop --> Konfabulator --> Dashboard.
Whatever.
Reply #2 Thursday, May 19, 2005 1:23 PM
Edit: After reading that article, I've concluded 4 things.
1. This guy is definitally full of him self.
2. He's has no idea what's-what. (For example, DesktopX, and other stardock programs are "Mircrosoft Certified." He was editor of "Windows Magazine" (Or something like that). Yet he didn't know crap about DesktopX.)
3. He's a total dick.
4. I'm gonna send an email to the owner of that site and complain about the lack of inteligence they have.
Reply #3 Thursday, May 19, 2005 1:42 PM
I sent Mike Elgan an email.
Any good journalist who does their homework before printing up an article should have found out about DesktopX.
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Reply #9 Friday, May 20, 2005 5:29 AM
| Konfabulator theoretically "stole" it from Microsoft, |
Yeah, sure...
Reply #10 Friday, May 20, 2005 9:15 AM
Ok ok ok. This is getting closer and closer to flamage.
I actually emailed the guy and wanted to know about the blatant lack of mention of DesktopX and my widget baby. Without pasting his email (which I think would be rude) I will say that he has a very convincing argument for WHY he did not mention the other widget engines. In a nutshell he said that he simply wanted to make note about the origin of Apple's Dashboard.
In that context, he slips by. I did however, mention that he should have been fair to the other apps by at least providing links to them (due to his pimping of 3 or 4 konfab links) -but there again, he admitted that he was not educated about all of the other apps available and wanted to limit it soley to apps directly related to Dashboard.
Think about that for a second. It makes sense.
Reply #11 Friday, May 20, 2005 10:04 AM
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Reply #1 Thursday, May 19, 2005 12:19 PM