[rkagerer]

In nearly 30 years of computing experience, one thing I've learned is the guys who make the platform never capture all the little details of what you'd like that platform to do.

IMO iPhones never really shined until they opened it up to 3rd party developers and built an ecosystem of developers around the app store.

One thing I love[d] about Windows was how deeply you could tailor the experience (through hooks, DLL injection, etc). Haven't played with Linux as much but love the concept that you can overhaul the whole source code to taste.

GreaseMonkey is analogous for the web.

I hope this concept isn't lost as corporations wrest control of both sides of the user experience (browser and services).