Google steals a page (or two) from Apple's book

[chosenwolf]

This beta program just launched from Google yesterday. Can you say dashboard and spotlight?

They call them "Gadgets" and they index your computer so you can search for anything on it (spotlight). Hmmm....

check it out here: http://desktop.google.com/

comments?

 

[Capt Underpants]

Apple took those same two pages from someone else.

Apple didn't invent widgets or search tools.

 

[DougTheImpaler]

Apple didn't invent widgets or search tools.

You could argue that Desk Accessories from System 6 were the first widget.

 

[eva01]

I could have sworn microsoft was going to have something called Gadgets on Vista

 

[Capt Underpants]

I could have sworn microsoft was going to have something called Gadgets on Vista

They are

 

[vniow]

This had been out for months.

 

[Capt Underpants]

You could argue that Desk Accessories from System 6 were the first widget.

I don't remember those days