Brilliant post. I think this trend will continue, sadly, until a crafty company is able to steal 1B of revenue from a flaky incumbent by building a reliable an

Brilliant post. I think this trend will continue, sadly, until a crafty company is able to steal 1B of revenue from a flaky incumbent by building a reliable and fast version of a core utility. I am reminded of the early google.com homepage. I can remember setting it as my default homepage in IE because it got to the point that Yahoo would take MINUTES to load, if not just crash the browser. Or maybe we need hardware to just suck again, to force the issue.