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This is just so sad. I've used, paid for, and loved Dropbox for years and years. It is really worrying that anyone in the company felt it was OK to launch this rebrand.

Even Yahoo, for whom mismanagement is usually effortless, had to work hard to keep Delicious down.

Man, I love Maciej's way with words.

Pegasus Mail 9 years ago

Pegasus was my introduction to email in the 90's. Glad it's still around.

I always hate the language used in blogs posts like this. Not saying I could write something much better... just painful to read the sugar-coated bad news.

Bootstrap 3 RC1 13 years ago

Congratulations on reaching RC1 after more than seven months of intensive work.

Phew. That's a little over-wrought.

Surely Apple has a responsibility to defend its patents and innovations?

We ("rabid Apple fan[s]") need a strong and successful Android to ensure some balance in this next generation of computing. We need a successful Android to keep Apple on their toes.

Google has figured out how to innovate with Android. Ice-cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean feature a unique and notable user interface.

Samsung, on the other hand, designed 'TouchWhiz' to imitate parts of the iOS look-and-feel in order to mislead customers.

PopCap Update 14 years ago

I really liked the tone of blog post. Honest, sincere and free of California-MBA-speak. Bravo.

> "...and noticed that you are one of the few customers that are still on our early products..."

One of the few? Cool. It's not costing you that much to keep them on their lifetime plan. Surely its not worth the negative PR?

Not sure what Joyent is thinking.

The most annoying part is the disingenuous email we all received tonight.

Recently, passwords have been stolen from some internet services. We've reset your password.

I'd have been shocked, but ultimately more respectful of:

We've had a security violation. You can read about it here. Your account wasn't affected, but we're resetting everyone's password just in case. So sorry about this.

Unfortunately, Google is developing a history of announcing – and later killing – products at their Google IO event.

I can appreciate the pressure: Every year, all eyes are on the company to match/outshine Apple's WWDC announcements.

It seems that Google needs to move IO to a different (less pressurised) time of year, and focus on only announcing release-ready products.