missing pieces

At MacWorld Expo San Francisco in January 1989 I stumbled across a paper based Macintosh newsletter called "Missing Pieces". Contrary to all the other information bloat that listed all useful and sometimes useless crap, this one concentrated only on the useful, but unavailable things. Years went by, the "Missing Pieces" newsletter ended pretty soon, but the idea somehow stuck in my head. A few months ago I found out, that the former "Missing Pieces" publisher, a guy called Robert A. Morgan, is the same that runs one of the best websites for Macintosh benchmarks and speedfreaks, called Barefeats, where there is just one last lonely remnant from the past, lamenting about missing features in Apple's current products. So from now on, I will invariably publish less about what is there, and more about what is not, no matter if it is electronic gadgets, politics or life in general. It saves a lot of time typing and precious bandwidth, especially on tiny and wireless devices. No matter if you call these information snippets "deal breakers" or anything else, they are dedicated to Robert A. Morgan, who had the right idea more than 15 years ago...