DISQUS

Mathew's comments: Yes, it’s always about Dave

  • Rogers Cadenhead · 3 years ago
    "as did Rogers Cadenhead, who admittedly has a somewhat fractious past involving Mr. Winer and some lawyers and so forth"

    Your use of the word "somewhat" made me laugh out loud. Thanks!
  • Mathew Ingram · 3 years ago
    You're welcome, Rogers. Glad you got a chuckle out of it -- I liked your "Cry me a news river" head :-)
  • Randy Charles Morin · 3 years ago
    It\'s not so much that Dave is creating mobile RSS reading. Dave has an amazing way of moving a technology forward. In fact, Dave didn\'t even invent RSS. It was a dead technology that Dave picked up off the floors at Netscape and fathered into the #1 XML format on the Web. Dave doesn\'t build mountains. He moves them.
  • Mathew Ingram · 3 years ago
    Thanks for the comment, Randy. And you are right that Dave has done a lot -- I don't want to diminish what he has been able to accomplish. But I don't want to overstate it either.
  • Peter Cranstone · 3 years ago
    He's way behind the curve. He took someone else's invention and improved it. Nothing wrong with that. In this industry it's all about timing anyway. He then sits back and tells the world what he's done. Along the way he picks fights with everyone. Now all of a sudden he's discovered mobile. And he immediately starts trying to direct the natural forces to his way of thinking for RSS being delivered to Mobile. Mobile is a different beast than the desktop. The whole experience is inconsistent with the desktop for a number of reasons. Wait until Dave buys a Windows Mobile device and really dives in under the hood. He'll be back to Windows 3.1 programming. Years ago my partner and I played with the Blackberry. We were the first to add support for real time data compression on the device. However our conclusion was that the Blackberry would be used mainly for email rather than web surfing. It's a great reading device - hence the focus on RSS feeds... however when it comes to surfing the web and RSS then WIndows Mobile will be the eventual winner. Lets see if Dave can move RSS forward for all Mobile devices. Only one problem, this time he's late to the party.
  • Mathew Ingram · 3 years ago
    Thanks for the comment, Peter. How's your mobile app coming along?