Concern

I’ve been increasingly using Google’s services for much of what I do on the Internet. Mail and calendar I had (I still read a lot of email with a Real Mail Reader, and of course, I have to use Notes at work), and I’ve been using the Docs service for schoolwork and when writing notes. I switched from using Vienna (because RSS feeds are teh important) to Sage, but Sage is terrible, so instead I’ve moved over to Google Reader.

This is all pretty nice. All these services work well for what I need them for, and I can access them from pretty much anywhere. The only drawback is that all of these services are still tied to these AJAXy interfaces, which are OK, but really don’t compare to a real UI designed for the system you run on. iCal looks better than Google Calendar, and is easier to use; Apple Mail looks and works better than the GMail interface. You can use both of these services from those apps, sure, but with limitations.

I kind of don’t get why these sync and search technologies Google is deploying aren’t being integrated into the operating system at all. That, my friends, is a killer app, but no-one cares to implement it.