Don't get me wrong it is very cool, but since the tablet is just running a fairly stock Linux, isn't it really just a computer at that point?

I control my PrintrBot LC with an older model TabletKiosk UMPC. It means I don't have to dedicate a more powerful computer to the task, and gives me touchscreen control. And do not discount how useful that is.

I really like the UI customizations and am going to have to do something like that to get the temp display into a more useful location. So I am not saying what he did is uninteresting, far from it. But it isn't that hard of an accomplishment. The software being iOS or Android based and customized to that kind of UI would have been more interesting. To me at least.

Really? Because Google's reason for getting rid of it is that it doesn't have a big enough audience for google. Therefor it failed at google. Other companies are making a go of news readers, but that doesn't mean it was a success for Google.

No the problem is that the port is labeled experimental and they themselves say it hasn't been tested; AND it is rocksalt and milk (IE you have to make it yourself). I only have so much time in my day to contribute to open source projects. So I am not going to go install Linux and Calligra just to see if it is worth giving a try. I am more than capable of compiling the suite myself, but I have better things to do than spend time on that just to see if I might like it. Especially with that OpenGL thing, which implies a deem immaturity to the port.

The problem is that after roughly half a decade Calligra has been unable to excite any interest from the OSX community. I have yet to see a compelling reason why I should as well.

Well and that is why I use Microsoft Office. Not being a troll, but honestly it is the one I work with best. I still can't round trip documents with even moderately complex formatting in [Open|Libra|Neo]Office with any consistency. Pages is lovely and I use it when I need to do something a little more DTP like, but I wouldn't want to write a novel in it. And AbiWord is a) not up to my needs, and b) was more or less abandoned on OSX a good while ago.

I would love another option to try. I don't hate MS (or office), but it would be nice to have some genuine competition in the office suite space. I do a lot of writing (fiction, essays, technical, business) and thus have higher end needs than most, I am the first to admit that.

I do and continue to write and contribute to open source projects. But I they have to be on subjects I care about and use.

The problem here is that I can't even use Calligra to know if I might want to contribute — and push something else off that list, there are only so many hours I can devote to non paying work.

The OpenGL thing just belies a systemic problem that makes me far too nervous to even try Calligra — ie what other lovely little time-bombs are in there? Also if this is such a known issue why in the hell can't Kitra detect the platform at startup and disable OpenGL support then? That just belies an immaturity to the port, that makes me very nervous.

And it isn't like this is a new problem, KDE and then Calligra have claimed to have a OSX port for literally years now, but every time I go to take a look I am offered sour milk and rock salt. I am not going to contribute to something I have no idea if it is stable enough to use. The FLOSS mantra of "you can fix that yourself" only carries so much water in this regard.

Also can I introduce you to this little gem:

Krita needs to disable OpenGL in Preferences.

That is not acceptable. And just how many YEARS has the OSX build been unstable and experimental? I have lost count.

When I am offered ice cream I don't want to be handed rock salt and milk and told to churn it myself :)

More to the point, yes while I am capable to compiling it and running it myself, though I would feel annoyance every time I launched it, I said I wanted a stable version. Not an experimental version, nor an unstable version; and that is all we have now. That is all we have had for years now.

It is lovely they are pushing the bounds and porting to Android, I just with they would either produce a stable OSX build, or stop claiming OSX support on the main page, because right now all they are giving me is rock salt...

It is a shame that there still isn't a stable version for OSX.

Sorry I meant suggestion not exception

While you make some interesting points, you still haven't listed example of anything that disappeared overnight, or that had one scrambling. There are plenty of other feed readers out there, and there is a standard way to get your feeds out and into something else, and they are giving plenty of notice

You didn't phrase it as an exception, but as a description of standard practice. Avoiding brad dilution and trying to prevent backlash are two very different things.

Additionally creating a nameplate for every app would have negative implications for you brand as well. You want to people to associate your brand with something, if each app has its own then you get no halo effect.

Um Really? Because I have yet to work for a company that does that. The only time companies I have run/or worked at have spun off a new nameplate is when they don't want to dilute their main brand.

You are going to have to back this claim up with some data...

That is a logical argument, not an example of quantified evidence. Show me some evidence that regular users — who either never used Reader or stopped using it some time ago — are more concerned if Google will kill products or services or not; then we can talk.

But I am not interested in arguing about theoretical measurements of angel's tap shoes...

Yes google earns money though ads. This isn't news. No one is forcing you to use Keep.

Yeah I am not sure how true that is. If you can show some quantifiable effect, please do. Otherwise I suspect the so called Normal People will just continue to act as they otherwise would. I think we overestimate our influence on them.