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May 31, 2007

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The Delicious Generational gap

Posted May. 31, ’07, 2:06 PM PT by Pat Nakajima
Category | Apple » Advertising

It’s back. Remember the Delicious Generation? Well a recent Tweet on the ever-watched Twitter of John Gruber revealed what appeared to be an unfinished ‘Delicious Generation Strikes Back’ post written by Austin Sarner and John Casasanta, two of its biggest promoters/deveopers. Then today, the post went live. Austin and John’s post discussed their marketing-driven approach to creating software (containing such questionable a like “Development Isn’t Simply the Key to a Successful App”). They even announced their decision to embrace the term “Delicious Generation,” going so far as creating a spiffy logo.

Unfortunately, the post also stunk of grapes so sour that they managed to all but decimate my sympathies for the two. Austin and John clearly took the label applied to their software personally, and have mistakenly responded accordingly, calling Paul Kafasis’ well-written post in which he coined the phrase a “narcissistic, pessimistic, manipulative, envy-driven rant.” I’d beg to differ.

The blog itself is the embodiment of criticisms leveled against the Delicious Generation. Nice to look at, but lacking in usability and content. After I visited the post’s comments page, there was no way to return to the home page. I’m also suspect of any blog that uses the term “hating on” or questions the extent to which any Daring Fireball piece has been thought out. Agree with him or don’t, you still must admit that John Gruber puts a fierce thought into his articles.

The term “Delicious Generation” on its own suggests nothing negative. In fact, a look at the bottom of Delicious Library’s home page will give one the impression that being put into its company is downright complimentary. It’s ashame to see such negativity brought into the Mac development community. Hopefully it’ll fade, and the Delicious developers will learn what they can gain from working with the old school. It’s probably more likely than seeing smoke effects from NetNewsWire in the near future.


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