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["Andy Satori" <dru@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sum-It.

It's small, light wieght, powerful, and not a clone.  It is a
spreadsheet, but it does it's job as a truly BeOS application.  Other
examples exist, but I think Sum-It is as good an example as there is.

Andy


> -----Original Message-----
> From: openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Helmar Rudolph
> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 4:40 PM
> To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [openbeos] Re: Think useful, not cool
> 
> 
> 
> > A super cool OS will, of course, ease the path to super
> > cool apps, but one has to convince developers that your
> > super cool OS is where they want to target those apps.
> 
> That's one element. The other one, as I said time and time 
> before, is that BeOS has very few super cool apps. Most of 
> them use the traditional paradigm (copied from Windows/Linux) 
> and are barely innovative, lest using the BeOS to the fullest.
> 
> Developers need to think like users, like marketers, like 
> geniuses...; they need to get into existing software and ask 
> themselves "why doesn't that software do this or do that; can 
> I possibly put that into my application?", etc. Really, what 
> is needed is lateral and innovative yet practical thinking 
> instead of copying what already exists. Only this way the 
> BeOS can ever become successful, because we need USP (unique 
> selling propositions) plastered all over the place, making it 
> easy for people to dump Linux and Windows in favour of BeOS, 
> whether they already have a PC or are considering getting one.
> 
> Just my 0.02.
> 
> Helmar
> 
>