They Say Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery...
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My Dream Windows App has just opened its doors, created by one Stefan Miganowicz of Leominster, Massachusetts. Stefan praises My Dream App as his source of inspiration, and gives “kudos to [us] for pioneering an innovative way to bring applications to market”, then immediately rips into the creativity of the Macintosh community, calling our submissions “second rate and unsatisfactory garbage”:
“We have created this site to show the Mac users how a community application should be designed, built and distributed. I say we start this community from scratch; no pre-selected biased judges, no emotional absurdity… just real ideas that actually have a possibility of usefulness to the sane human being.”
Well, Stefan, I certainly would like to point out that we were about providing something cool and new to the Mac community, and not about showing the Windows community “how to do it”, but hey, we each have our own motives, right?
So far the forums seem a bit empty, with just a sole thread going on for users to post their workstations. Perhaps our own Windows-using members can help jump start this little venture, though if you’re a Mac user like me, something tells me you might not be quite welcomed into this contest. (We had Windows developers as finalists, Stefan has an entire forum devoted to “My Dream App Ranting”.)
My question to you Stefan: Is this truly how you would like Windows users to be perceived?
And my second question is: how long until you copy our next project? You’ll have to be a bit more creative though this time, because we’ve already registered WindowsHeist.com. ;)
A word of advice. It may be your preference to ditch celebrity judges, but I would at the very least recommend you find some Windows developers to support this. (It’s a key ingredient of MDA.)
Good luck! Digg?
