Comments | mmk: Chrome and Polish

mmk

Chrome and Polish

Sep 03, 2008 21:11

A long long time ago, (i.e Nov 10, 2005) Jeremy wrote something that really resonated with me. And more proof of that showed up this week. He wrote:

When Google Calendar and Google Finance (more in a future post) finally show their faces, I suspect they'll follow the same pattern. They'll look like someone sat down and thought "I'm starting with a ( Read more... )

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bluesmoon September 4 2008, 11:14:13 UTC

Opera's had that kind of start page for a while.

Nice mmk September 9 2008, 18:58:27 UTC

I didn't know about it at all. I think I need to go try Opera - haven't done that in years!

sunson September 5 2008, 06:21:22 UTC

so does flock.

I think Chrome isn't trying to 'tear away' FF's market share. It's trying the bigger chunk - IE.

Agree with IE attack mmk September 9 2008, 18:59:05 UTC

I think though that the geeky crowd will embrace it more - thereby unintentionally leading to FF loss.

Re: Agree with IE attack sunson September 10 2008, 01:26:50 UTC

Minor correction: Wannabe-geek crowd. A True Geek goes after the 'useful' stuff. Not what's perceived to be 'Cool' by the masses.

thaths September 6 2008, 15:14:18 UTC

Speaking of Yahoo Calendar. I logged into it after a hiatus of a couple of years and it is full of spam masquerading as invites to meetings. Y really needs to work on better web, email and calendar spam detection.

Y Finance, imo, is a good example of fighting back and maintaining the lead in usability and usefulness.

Finance has fought back mmk September 9 2008, 19:02:50 UTC

Calendar has not. I was rather hopeful that the Zimbra buy would help - but I don't think I've seen anything....

Re: Finance has fought back sunson September 10 2008, 01:28:12 UTC

Zimbra, my ass. It's a crappy piece of software and I had to struggle with it's installation on OSX Tiger and finally gave up, all because I was already running mysqld.