Useless Software
I’ve often mused that anyone who complains about Apple’s recent user interface work should take a quick look at the front page of VersionTracker any day of the week. The atrocities that amateur developers (usually drunk on the newfound power bequeathed to them by their copy of RealBasic) unleash upon the world through that venue make Apple’s UI transgressions look downright venial!
Serious Mac developers, many of whom also depend on VersionTracker as a major source of exposure, have long bemoaned the extent to which deserving apps get lost in the sea of crap on the site. As the author of an application with a great many competitors (many of which are very, very poorly done), I have certainly been among the complainers.
Fortunately, someone has decided to do something to hopefully reduce
the problem—by shaming the worst offenders! In the spirit of such “meta”
sites as Who Would Buy
That?, the folks at
VersionTracker every
day for the worst the Mac software community has to offer—from a timer that measures a minute as 100 seconds, to a simple calculator program that offers no improvement over the one included with OS X (348Kb) but weighs in at a stunning 5.7Mb!
Here’s hoping that PerversionTracker becomes a very well-known site—and a major force in reducing the amount of crap that the Mac platform’s many talented, independent developers are forced to compete with for attention!