Perhaps these tech blogger/entrepreneurs will get round to doing real work now. Streams of messages (twitter) and bug tracking (frog creek) is great n all, but how about something with more than a handful of features?
Reinventions of the telegraph (twitter/facebook) and operating system (apple/android/chromeos) is all i'm seeing these days.
For the operating system snark I for one am glad the world isn't still using apple II's
If you want the problems solved start working on it yourself it isn't other peoples burden.
Operating system snark - beneath os x and android is unix, invented over 40 years ago.
I do work on it myself, but i'm only one man. If the industry set its goals higher that would make a real difference, and put more money in its pocket.
If you are using any operating system other than the unix invented 40 years ago then I think there is a reason for new operating systems and I stick with my opinion. An airplane is just based on some flying contraption people built 100 years ago but there is a reason we built new ones.
It'd just be nice if my dishwasher did my dishes better, and chemotherapy cured cancer better (and less painfully).
Kinda like how Twitter lets people communicate better. New products are almost always a refinement of some existing product. The ones that aren't tend to elicit a big "Huh?" reaction from the marketplace.
Now that he has time for some real work, that place is going to be a power house!
Criticism is what makes science function and is what made the west great.