I write this very psychiatric confessional blog post within a WYSIWYG editor running inside a web browser. (Sorry, doctor, but you’re just a figment of my overactive rhetorical imagination.) In the browser lies the problem. Almost all of the erstwhile proper applications that I use on a daily basis are now web applications.
Interestingly enough, this is one reason I still write blog posts in Textmate and longer documents in Word (laugh all you want, but Word for OS X on an SSD is actually very fast). I still use Mail.app, which is very fast for composition and searchable even offline. I'm running 10.6 instead of 10.9 or 10.10 (can't remember the latest number; allegedly the most recent versions are slow on the hardware I'm using (http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/mac-os-10-7-is-out-...).
Many things can still be done on fast hardware. Most people choose not to do them, however. Do users drive developers or do developers drive users?
Interestingly enough, this is one reason I still write blog posts in Textmate and longer documents in Word (laugh all you want, but Word for OS X on an SSD is actually very fast). I still use Mail.app, which is very fast for composition and searchable even offline. I'm running 10.6 instead of 10.9 or 10.10 (can't remember the latest number; allegedly the most recent versions are slow on the hardware I'm using (http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/mac-os-10-7-is-out-...).
Many things can still be done on fast hardware. Most people choose not to do them, however. Do users drive developers or do developers drive users?