The Delicious Generation is the name given to a group of Macintosh

Macintosh

The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...

 software developers who value attractive user interface design over bare functionality in the software they write. Often criticized for focusing too heavily on form at the expense of function, members of the Delicious Generation claim instead that the strength of the Macintosh development environment makes software development easier and quicker, allowing them time to concentrate on making their applications more attractive.

This moniker was first coined by Paul Kafasis, CEO of Rogue Amoeba

Rogue Amoeba

Rogue Amoeba Software, LLC is a Macintosh software company that produces audio software, specializing in applications for audio capture. Rogue Amoeba's best-known products are Audio Hijack and Audio Hijack Pro. The Audio Hijack programs allow for users to capture and record audio from any program...

, to distinguish this new group from the “Old School” who produce cleaner, simpler interfaces for their applications. It refers to the software company Delicious Monster

Delicious Monster

Delicious Monster is a software company based in San Francisco, California that sells the shareware software program Delicious Library. Its founders are Wil Shipley, one of the three co-founders of The Omni Group, and Mike Matas, who worked as an interface designer at The Omni Group...

 and their product, Delicious Library

Delicious Library

Delicious Library is a media cataloguing application for Mac OS X, developed by Delicious Monster to allow users to manage collections of books, movies, CDs, and video games....

, which Kafasis sees as largely responsible for the shift in attitude among some developers. The name may have been meant as an insult, but its intended targets have adopted it as their own regardless.

Other than Delicious Library

Delicious Library

Delicious Library is a media cataloguing application for Mac OS X, developed by Delicious Monster to allow users to manage collections of books, movies, CDs, and video games....

, the applications Disco

Disco (software)

Disco is an application for Apple's Mac OS X developed by Austin Sarner, Jasper Hauser and Jason Harris.The software is an optical disc authoring utility, which allows users to burn CDs and DVDs with multisession support, disc duplication, burning VIDEO_TS folders, disc spanning as well as a...

 and AppZapper

AppZapper

AppZapper is an application for Apple's Mac OS X developed by Austin Sarner and Brian Ball.The software is an uninstall utility which extends the method of uninstalling in Mac OS X, which is dragging the application one wants to uninstall to the trash...

 have been described as examples of the Delicious Generation.

Appearance at Shows

Recently, the companies or software products first given this nickname have set up a website and regularly schedule parties or meetups to coincide with events organised by Apple such as Macworld Conference & Expo

Macworld Conference & Expo

Produced by Boston-based IDG World Expo, Macworld | iWorld is a trade-show with conference tracks dedicated to the Apple Macintosh platform. It is held annually in the United States, usually during the second week of January...

 or WWDC.

External links

• "Kiss Boring Interfaces Goodbye With Apple's New Animated OS" at Wired.com
• "The Forgotten Delicious" - Matt Ball's Blog