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I think that Safari and Sherlock should merge, add tabs, and advance the modules.

1. Ebay tracking and sniping
2. Stocks should be able to track a portfolio and calculate earnings
3. Yellow Pages should have a button to add to address book
4. Flights should act like Sidestep and search out prices

I think that Safari and Sherlock should merge, add tabs, and advance the modules.

1. Ebay tracking and sniping
2. Stocks should be able to track a portfolio and calculate earnings
3. Yellow Pages should have a button to add to address book
4. Flights should act like Sidestep and search out prices

It's been awhile since I read this thread, and I'm not going to do it again now, so forgive me if we covered this ground already...

Why does everyone want to bloat Safari?  That is what I despise about Netscape and why I love Chimera and Safari so much. Do one thing, and do it well. 

I want a browser to browse the web.  Not a mail program that kind of surfs, or a browser that kind of reads mail. My mail app reads mail, and does it well.  If there is a link in an email, it is smart enough to know it isn't any good at surfing the web, so it opens my browser, which is an expert at surfing the web. If I need an app to find stuff for me I'll use Watson (or Sherlock if you prefer) and let it open my browser if I need to go to a page... just like it does now.  When I use Watson to look for a phone number, I don't need a web browser. 

As soon as you make a browser that does everything, you get Windows.  And we all know how well that works

Exactly.  I hate bloat.  I like things to work well together, but be specialized experts at their job.  Bloat is also bad because I'm on dialup, and I'd hate the huge downloads that Sherfarilock would end up being.  I like Apple's approach to designing their software.  Keep it small, simple, specialized, and an expert at doing its job.  Each app does one thing and does fully and does it well, instead of trying to do everything, but not completely or well.

I stand opposed to merging Sherlock and Safari, as well as the idea that still gets thrown around of wrapping Mail, Address Book, iCal, and iSync all up into some sort of bloated Entourage killer.  What a mess it would all be.

Why don't we just write everything into the Finder, so we can browse websites, store addresses, send mail, search the 'net, etc. without needing a single app?  Wouldn't that just be great?  Here's the 200 MB download you'll have to sit through every time we update any part of it.  Yay!