Ewan's not one to beat around the bush - when he thinks that an application is essentially pointless, he comes right out and says so, here in his review of Yahoo! Go 3.0. In Go 3.0's defense, it IS pretty and it DOES make sense if you're a heavy Yahoo! user, but in essence it doesn't really do anything you couldn't do just as well using Yahoo's mobile site. Or Google's, and so on.

"But the fundamental question for me in all this is "why", because every bit of the functionality of the applet is duplicated online, in a mobile specific web site (http://beta.m.yahoo.com/). Okay, it misses the graphically nice carousel, but (functionally) everything is there, including the heavily hyped widgets. So when you boil the choice down to a rather slow java client, or the 'already familiar interface' in the web browser, my gut feeling is everyone is going to bias towards the web site - I know I am."

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