Is Useless Innovation in Software on the Rise?

I’ve found that a lot innovation floating around is cool, but doesn’t necessarily solve any problems or help make people’s worklife easier. This is nothing new. Useless innovation has been around forever. But it seems that the pace has picked up on software being released that doesn’t bring anything new to the table.

Wonder if it has anything to do with more developers spending time on blogs, reading the latest success stories or latest technologies and trying to hop on the wave –without understanding the fundamental problems being solved or the thinking that goes on behind the design of the functionality?

How has software already changed now that so many developers get input directly from the blogosphere? Is it creating software that solves problems better? Or, does it just increase the tempation to create something that rides latest, greatest tech buzz?

          

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