"Director of Widget Technology".....

Best.... Title.... Ever.

If they wish to be more focused on the Mac...they should start by bringing Yahoo Messenger up to par with the PC version, so all features work cross platform. Yahoo Messenger at this point is so crippled and worthless on the Mac that it is pointless to use (and therefor, I don't, using another client to talk with friends who still have Yahoo).

Once that, and their web services, are fixed to work correctly on the Mac...THEN we can talk about being cross platform and more Mac focused. Until then...they can keep their PR crap.

Konfabulator's widgets, which I'm trying out now that it's free, tend to be a lot less slick than Dashboard's, and the UI for opening them is a lot less nice, however one area where it has a huge advantage over Dashboard is that widgets can be on the "dashboard"-layer-equivalent, or can have normal windowing behavior, always be on the desktop or always on top - your choice. If Dashboard allowed that I'd use it a lot more! Certainly any iTunes controller/status thingy needs to be available all the time, not just when the Dashboard is displayed! One wonders if Apple will ever have such a feature - the developer hack works, but only with always-on-top behavior, which I rarely want. You can run both Dashboard and Konfabulator, and I'll do that, but I'd sure like to have those windowing options for Dashboard widgets.

I didn't say I never use free software. There's lots of great free software, especially that created by individuals who give it away without seeking profit. Firefox is a good example of a major free app that doesn't have any drawbacks that I can see.
I was just pointing out that certain companies give away free stuff, but in order to make money they load it with adware and lots of crap you don't need. They have a different agenda than a developer that is solely devoted to their customers because their customers provide the income. Apple's software, while free, is closer to the latter category because the use of their software requires the purchase of one of their computers and/or iPods, so the better it is, the more computers they can sell.
I hope Konfabulator stays true to its roots and continues to put the needs of the users before its parent company, but that doesn't seem to make much business sense. Until I hear more about how it's all working, I will continue to run the old version.