And it isn't the improvements that Google will be making over the next few months that will matter so much as the creation of third party software optimized for the platform.
As for third-party software to sort this mass of data, most genealogists use standard spreadsheets.
Moreover, Mr. Jobs also appears to be restricting the potential for third-party software developers to write applications for the new handset, like ring tones and word processors.
Now the big question for third-party software makers is whether they will invest in developing apps for the struggling BlackBerry maker.
Moreover, Mr. Jobs also appears to be restricting the potential for third-party software developers to write applications for the new handset — from ringtones to word processors.
Instead of allowing a free-for-all for third-party software support, Yamauchi placed strict quality control measures on would-be game publishers, tying them into restrictive licensing agreements.
Sources familiar with Google's thinking say the feature was unsupported and untested, and that average users wouldn't have understood the need for third-party software to activate it, or known how to find it.
It staggers from burning funds ahead of revenue (if it had any), and then shutters, leaving not even a virtual footprint.A promising service awkwardly named App.net, which combined social-networking features with robust and unconditional support for third-party software developers to build on top of it, announced this week it will lay off all its full-time staff, yet not close its doors.
Otherwise, though, it's a fairly low-key launch for first-party software, with Nintendo content to let two lesser lights take centre stage on day one.
