- Apple's stated goal for OS X Snow Leopard: "Taking a break from adding new features, Snow Leopard — scheduled to ship in about a year — builds on Leopard's enormous innovations by delivering a new generation of core software technologies that will streamline Mac OS X, enhance its performance, and set new standards for quality. Snow Leopard X will focus on improvements of the OS"
- Mozilla Firefox 3 development team has focused on stabilizing the innovative features introduced to Firefox: "Mozilla have gone back to basics and worked on what really matters to users — security, speed and ease of use ... Everything about Firefox 3.0 beta 1 is fast. The download package is small which means that it comes in fast, the installation is fast, the browser fires up fast, pages and tabs open fast, the browser shuts down fast, and the uninstall process is fast and painless.'"
- Products can't be in an endless race to add features and functionality without looking at the quality of its products.
- Interestingly enough, the companies/organizations that have managed to be bold enough to break the cycle are the ones that have better products and felt they could lose the lead if they overlooked the most basic advantage they had: the basic performance of their products
- What are the companies that will be next to ignore the media and market pressure to 'be innovative' at any breakneck pace and choose to consolidate functionality and focus on making their products work better? Do these companies have to be companies that already are leading the pack in terms of product excellence or can they be second tier players that decide to take over?
- Will Apple and Mozilla reintroduce revolutionary features in their next release? It seems like Firefox 4 definitely will...
Picture: Titian, "Sisyphus"
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