Thoughts 2.0

It's been a long sabbatical I've been on since my last post. I've travelled the world for business and pleasure. I've looked at possibly changing jobs but ultimately deciding to stay where I am. The tech world has had a couple of major shake ups: the new iPhone, Google's Chrome, Microsoft trying for Yahoo, the new Microsoft servers, the explosion of the netbook, and on and on.

I'm fully behind all the advances we are seeing, but there appears to be a lack of direction for most of the new devices and technology. Look at Microsoft's DotNet stack. What started as a small, concise collection of libraries that eased the development process has now become a large, nasty web of expansive libraries that now require a specialization to fully utilize.

The netbook is another prime example. It was a nice little device that worked beautifully for what it was designed to do. Now, all the manufacturers are developing larger, more powerful machines that will shortly rival the complexity of a budget laptop at a premium price.

This is the boon and bane of capitalism. Manufacturers will build what the consumer asks for and the consumer always wants more. Just because we can build it and they will come, doesn't mean it's good for them to be there so maybe we shouldn't build it.

Chris