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Andreesen Offers New Browser 'Rockmelt'
DrHeasley writes "Rockmelt, available for the first time Monday, is built on the premise that most online activity today revolves around socializing on Facebook, searching on Google, tweeting on Twitter and monitoring a handful of favorite websites. It tries to minimize the need to roam from one website to the next by corralling all vital information and favorite services in panes and drop-down windows. 'This is a chance for us to build a browser all over again,' Andreessen said. 'These are all things we would have done (at Netscape) if we had known how people were going to use the Web.'"
MP3 players hadn't failed up until the point. They just hadn't been dumbed down to the point where Apple users could use them. Apple had to infringe upon other people's IP and create a massive marketing campaign to get that thing off the ground.
What did he contribute to those abortions?
"Rockmelt...is built on the premise that most online activity today revolves around socializing on Facebook, searching on Google, tweeting on Twitter and monitoring a handful of favorite websites."
Let me be the first to say, "Fuck you Andreesen, you stupid fucking moron". If that's what Andreesen thinks "most people" use the web for (or if that's what he thinks is "vital information"), he's an even bigger douche-bag idiot than I imagined.
In closing, let me just say, "Shut the fuck up, Marc, you're a gigantic fucking idiot and you have no idea what you're talking about."