Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by newnewpdro » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:23 AM UTC

gwlperl wrote: post #80

The Acura Integra (or anything like it 3-door hatchbacks are all mostly gone). TV's with more than 3 HDMI inputs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_CR-Z

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by tga » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:24 AM UTC

robbyking wrote: post #218

letientai299 wrote: post #11

Picasa, the best image manager I have used. Nothing come close to it.

What did it do that Google Photos doesn't? I never tried it, but I know there are some die-hards who really miss it.

It managed a local photo library without uploading everything to the cloud.

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by AngryData » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:24 AM UTC

spilk wrote: post #259

Wunderground. Whatever they've done to the site in the past few years is just terrible.

The 10 day forcast chart still seems to work decent, but it feels like someone didn't like the short page view times, not realizing they had short view times because the display was so perfectly concise and convenient.

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by kweks » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:28 AM UTC

chalkandpaste wrote: post #163

maxmcd wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And on that note: what.cd

Oh man, I miss what so hard. Can't find anything comparable today. Those were the golden days, when I could find obscure albums that you couldn't even pay good money for.

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Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by znpy » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:29 AM UTC

- MSN Messenger

- KDE 3

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by ComputerGuru » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:30 AM UTC

lykr0n wrote: post #27

newnewpdro wrote: post #20

IBM ThinkPads

The Lenovo ThinkPads are surprisingly not that bad

They’ve confirmed (and had a horrible history of) bundling spyware into the firmware.

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by jefftk » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:30 AM UTC

The Axis-49 [1]. Ninety eight velocity sensitive keys in a hexagonal layout, ready to be remapped to Wicki-Hayden. I discovered them after they were discontinued and when a used one popped up after several years I bought it, but I'm really disappointed these didn't catch on.

[1] https://www.c-thru-music.com/cgi/?page=prod_axis-49

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by blinkengus » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:31 AM UTC

the_cat_kittles wrote: post #261

kozmo.com

Kozmo was two full evolutionary cycles ahead of its time, and pretty much defined peak optimism for what the internet could weave together. Things since have been [much] bigger in effect, but the ambitions for tacking non-existant infrastructure seem petite in comparison.

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by dvlsg » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:31 AM UTC

eksemplar wrote: post #192

seattle_spring wrote: post #40

Blizzard Entertainment, back when they made well-written atmospheric games instead of e-sports garbage.

I think they are still pretty good at atmospheric and I don’t think they were ever really that great at writing. It was just easier to enjoy when you were young, but a lot of bad writing is. I do miss blizzard north though.

I don't know.. Diablo 2s storyline was quite a bit better than whatever happened in Diablo 3.

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by jbrooksuk » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:31 AM UTC

oppositelock wrote: post #119

Video game arcades. They were amazing during their heyday, but I was also young. I want both of those things back!

In Bury, England there is something called The Arcade Club[1] which is a two-storey factory converted into an arcade. One level is all retro games and the next is PC, Xbox, PS4, Wii-U and VR. It’s incredible.

[1] https://www.arcadeclub.co.uk/