> That argument would be a lot more convincing if the Dash actually displayed results from a lot of places, not just Amazon. What if I want to search the Web? What if I want to search my social networking services? What if I want to look up directions to a location? What if I want to look up a word in a dictionary? (Remember, Ubuntu is popular in schools in some countries.)
Apple already tried this with Sherlock. It just isn't something people seem to actually want.
When Apple killed Sherlock, they replaced it with Spotlight (local search only), and Dashboard (widgets that you can use to find specific network information without going to the web).
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> That argument would be a lot more convincing if the Dash actually displayed results from a lot of places, not just Amazon. What if I want to search the Web? What if I want to search my social networking services? What if I want to look up directions to a location? What if I want to look up a word in a dictionary? (Remember, Ubuntu is popular in schools in some countries.)
Apple already tried this with Sherlock. It just isn't something people seem to actually want.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software)
When Apple killed Sherlock, they replaced it with Spotlight (local search only), and Dashboard (widgets that you can use to find specific network information without going to the web).
Spotlight is not local search only, including links to Wikipedia and for web searches (and even recently viewed pages).
It has links, but not live content fetched from the internet.
I loved Sherlock. I thought they killed it because they got tired of it and it didn't monetize, not because it was unloved.