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Golan Klinger wrote: It actually got me wondering when apps started really pushing (or forcing) functionality on users outside of their core reason for existing (such as a web browser trying to be an email client, or an email client trying to be a usenet client etc.) I suspect that aspect *is* on topic :-) Netscape circa mid-90's is one of the first culprits I can think of, but doubtless there were others long before then? (Note I'm not talking about small bundled utility apps or functionality which is related to the central purpose of an application - more the cases where something that was recognised as doing one job suddenly branched out and started offering something completely different) [Not a practice that I agree with at all - memory and disk footprint often increases, and stability goes down, all for extra functionality which a separate dedicated app nearly always handles better]