Delicious Copier
Microsoft’s WinHEC took place this week, and Bill Gates gave the keynote, showcasing Longhorn and hardware products that would take advantage of the new technology.
One type of application that Bill referred to as being part of calendar year 2007 is MediaMania. It has bookshelves that show images of movies, games, books, and music that you own. You can search through it, or operate a zoom slider to dynamically see larger or smaller representations on your shelves. If this sounds vaguely familiar to you, it should. It’s the app that for two years I’ve been trying to come up with an excuse to buy: Delicious Library.
Some developers are saying that it isn’t a real app to be released for consumers, but rather a developer’s demonstration app to show the abilities of XAML with Avalon. Bill referring to it as something “in calendar year 2007” leads me to disagree, but even still, come on. The widgets are even in the same place. Of note is MediaMania’s absence of a barcode scanning feature, which Delicious Library does with any camera you can connect to your computer. Delicious Software’s original release was two years ago. That puts Microsoft’s MediaMania about four years behind by the time it releases. Isn’t the idea of copying that you can release something more quickly without having to think of, and build it yourself?
To be unlike Fox News, I should mention that a tasty feature of OS X Tiger releasing on Friday is the Dashboard, and is a blatant copy of the multiplatform Konfabulator. At least Apple had the sense to make it better when they copied it.
Posted Tuesday April 26, 2005 in Rants by Derek Jones
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