[jwasbury]

I don't know that I would say no one makes meaningful stuff anymore, but I can agree that there seems to be a plethora of useless crap out there.

I attended a couple of tech start-up forums, these were packed with venture capital guys and the founders of the start-ups were discussing their "product" and business plans. 90% of them were "apps" of one sort or another, and the business plan was to get a critical mass of users, then serve up advertising to them or otherwise sell user information gathered to 3rd parties who would be interested in marketing to those users. I didn't see a whole lot of creativity, or things that would disrupt the status quo...lots of people trying to be the next Candy Crush. One shop's product wasn't even an "app," it was a "button" that could be placed inside of other people's apps. The revenue model there was they get paid by having users "click through" to some other site or app - again, some form of advertising.