All unnecessary NON-DREAMY apps.

They all sound fine... but not very unusual, interesting, or necessary. A good synchronization util would be nice... but effects are unnecessary.

Agreed. All of the apps, such as Chatboard, that I was interested in were out early.
I'm looking forward to the next time they try this, assuming they do. I believe the organizers learned a lot about how people can use DIGG or /. to skew the voting. Maybe next time by controlling this sort of thing they will come out with a true "DreamApp", not this drek (I mean come on, the winner was a Cookbook for crying out loud. On what planet is that anyones DreamApp. Handy for a small segment, but there are lots of them out there.)

The winner was Atmosphere.

You obviously only looked at the header, and didn't bother to read the context.

These are dream apps? A weather reader? Seriously? A recipe book? Garsh. Why not something that charts if the household pets have been fed? A bluetooth enabled pet-dish or something? Chyaa..... And now quirk is doing another HTML extension on their 'ware? Maybe you can use quirk to chart the weather on your desktop now....... ugh. I'm disgusted. Really.

It's not as if i expect a public contest to reflect how i use my machine. But really. I weather charter? Have you ever heard of a FREAKING WINDOW?

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mahuti wrote:
All unnecessary NON-DREAMY apps.

They all sound fine... but not very unusual, interesting, or necessary. A good synchronization util would be nice... but effects are unnecessary.

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Guest wrote:
These are dream apps? A weather reader? Seriously? A recipe book? Garsh. Why not something that charts if the household pets have been fed? A bluetooth enabled pet-dish or something? Chyaa..... And now quirk is doing another HTML extension on their 'ware? Maybe you can use quirk to chart the weather on your desktop now....... ugh. I'm disgusted. Really.

It's not as if i expect a public contest to reflect how i use my machine. But really. I weather charter? Have you ever heard of a FREAKING WINDOW?

Because I can't think of anything better than something lame and retarded like a cookbook application. This is also the reason that I didn't set up a contest called "My Dream Application" with the idea of coming up with something good.

If I had created a contest called "My Dream Application" and decided the winner was a cookbook, I'd be comfortable with heaps of derision. As it stands, I'm more than comfortable to stand back and mock the creators of the contest for their terrible finalists & "winners."

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metavurt wrote:
The winner was Atmosphere.

You obviously only looked at the header, and didn't bother to read the context.

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admin wrote:
The My Dream App contest is officially over, and the three winners have been announced. Participants in the multi-week contest were competing to get their application concept developed into a real shareware application.

The cookbook should have been eliminated. Atmosphere is just another weather app, there are tons of them. I would have picked Portal sync as a dream app. Today as it stands there are many sync apps but none of them are reliable.


http://www.macobserver.com/article/2006/10/27.6.shtml

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Why didn't you submit an idea?

I was really excited about this when it was announced. I didn't submit any ideas (though I had a few) because I knew that they were such limited market-segment ideas that they wouldn't make it past the first round.

Goes to show what I knew.

I like the cookbook app. I've wanted something that does exactly that for a long time. Integrates a database-driven cookbook with shopping planner, etc. But My Dream App? Not even close. I like this about as much as I like Comic Life. Pretty cool, but not the stuff from which dreams are made.

And the weather thing is an interesting concept. What most people didn't seem to catch is that people don't always want to see what's directly out their window. Many people don't even have windows. (Too many jokes, too little time...) This app gives you a pretty picture of something. Maybe it's what you're experiencing. Maybe it's what the opposite hemisphere is experiencing that you wish you were experiencing. Whatever you want it to show. That's very insteresting.

But a dream app? Dream on.


- Jon