When Marissa Mayer co-founded a startup six years ago in Palo Alto, California, expectations were sky high for the former Yahoo CEO and early Google employee. When that startup, Sunshine, revealed that its first app centered around subscription software for contact management, people wondered if something more ambitious might be around the corner. Today, after Sunshine released two equally mundane features ' event organizing and photo sharing ' internet commenters were decidedly mystified. I was also baffled last week when Mayer walked me through Sunshine's new offerings. Though there are AI components to all that Sunshine offers, it's hard to understand how Sunshine's new photo app enhances photo sharing as it exists today, and the same could be said of its new events app, which looks very much like something that was designed 20 years ago. It's tempting to dismiss the 15-person outfit as out of touch. But Mayer may be onto something with Sunshine, and that's nostalgia. Throwback...
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