The numbers for “AppleSyndication” are also climbing, as Leopard’s Mail includes much nicer RSS features than Safari RSS in Tiger. If you check your Mint, you’ve probably seen that Google Reader is hugely popular.
NETNEWSWIRE 3.1 SOFTWARE
The bigger picture is that, like e-mail and the Web, feeds are becoming essential and the software for accessing them is becoming free. Web browsers stagnated shortly thereafter-Microsoft, with browser share at or above 90%, had little incentive to innovate, and smaller players just couldn’t break in. Look no further than the late nineties, when IE effectively killed Netscape. The developers at NewsGator have done great work, but the more minds there are attacking a problem in different ways, the more great solutions we see. And that’s unfortunate, because ultimately, it’s likely to lead to stagnation. If competing with a popular, well-designed product is tough, competing with a popular, well-designed product that happens to be free (while remaining fully-funded) is damned near impossible. Paul Kafasis has a thoughtful post about this, saying: Unfortunately, this move will probably have negative consequences for smaller but innovative competitors like Cyndicate and NewsLife.
NetNewsWire is one of my favorite applications, and it’s great that more people will have access to a quality desktop feed reader. At long last, NetNewsWire 3.1 is available, and it’s free.
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