It’s funny how people burn out with software; when Konfabulator came out, there was loads of hype about what it could do and what you could achieve, but then interest seemed to wane as most of what came through seemed to end up being variations on a few decent ideas. Obviously this is the same with Dashboard.
Although there is still quite a lot of interest in Quartz Composer, on the surface it seems to be suffering from the same kind of problem, in that most of what I am seeing published, is variations on the RSS reader theme (with a few clocks thrown in for good measure).
Now, I really hope that this doesn’t spell a slow down in interest for the application, because I really think it has huge potential for generating interesting graphics
Maybe the question I should be asking is “Is it merely a lack of inspiration on the part of erstwhile developers for it, that causes a piece of software to have a limited life-span, or does it more have to do with fundamental limitations in that software?”
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