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by blasdel
6275 days ago
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How nice of you to sort your idealism in order of plausibility: 1. Desktop Notifications: Terrific idea, and going to take a longass time to happen in a unified way. Already getting implemented via XMPP, perhaps browsers will just end up including an XMPP client where you can add to the roster from the DOM (pending confirmation). If this ends up happening via Twitter instead, there is no hope for this world. 2. Native Menus: a thoroughly mediocre idea -- for starters your webapps should not have fucking desktop-style menus! Furthermore how would you implement File-Edit-View on a mac? If you really need a dropdown, <select> is right fucking there. The only redeeming native-ui feature I can think of would be the ability to add to the browser's context menu, but that would be ripe for abuse if it was even close to useful enough. 3. MICROPAYMENTS: The single shittiest idea in the history of the web, and it's never going to fucking go away. Fucklers will continue to tilt at this windmill forever, and will always fail. There is far more terrific content available that I want to peruse than I will ever have time for, and I'm a guy that spends every waking moment reading. I'm serious, I often read well over 1M words a week (though I haven't instrumented in over a year), almost exclusively on the web, though in college I got 100+ books a year through ILL. There is just too much out there to be nickel & dimed. |
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I agree, micropayments are fundamentally flawed. The reasons have been the same since Clay Shirky said so in 2000: users hate them.
http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2000/12/19/micropayments.ht...
However, I am in favor of absolutely anything that makes it easier for macro-payments to go through. The Apps Store cited is one way to accomplish macropayments with just a click or two, but I am skeptical that that works for the general case.
Honestly I think we're probably going to just get iterative improvements on Paypal at this point -- that is a great leap from the status quo circa 2000 but it leaves me feeling a little annoyed in 2009. There's still a 10x improvement out there... except it would have to decouple e-commerce from credit cards and have instant penetration higher than Paypal. Tough order there.