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

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Post by screye »

hashhar wrote: post #180

The Zune (media players) and Windows Phone (upto 8, not even 8.1). The fluid interface with focus on readability and content. The photos app was amazing. Live tiles are amazing. The music player and it's live tile was amazing. The performance was the same whether on a low end budget phone or the top of the line model. So many good ui and ux decisions like the lack of hamburger menus and placement of all menu items al…

Absolutely loved the windows phone for what it was.

The UI and UX were both extremely well thought out and worked smoother than any Android phone on equivalent specs. (apart from the confusing settings menus)

My dad's 100$ nokia 840 still runs like a champ. I can't think of any $100 Android phone with that sort of smoothness over 4 years.

The lack of adoption from both devs and users killed it.

I woul love to see it being revived at some point, but I doubt we will see that day.

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

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #60

HyperCard. It's been decades and I've still never found a better way to make simple GUI applications.

In general there seems to have been a trend away from trying to enable users via personal computing. I'm sure you'll get a bunch of responses to this post linking you to someone's web-app builder, possibly some that are hold-your-work-hostage subscription services. It's not the same, and people who didn't live through the 80s and 90s, when the future of computing was still bright, won't even see why it isn't the same.

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

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Post by acranox »

Liru wrote: post #211
rsync wrote: post #71

Altavista. I miss it every single day. Searching for technical (unix, programming, etc.) content is so much easier when you can use nested parens and proper boolean language. This is in contrast to google where searches return things that don't even contain your keywords. This is in contrast to google where the modifiers like allinsite: and '+' and "quotes" are not respected or change their behavior over time. Man I…

> This is in contrast to google where searches return things that don't even contain your keywords. This has become so frustrating as of late, especially when you search for something like "c++ map" and it decides to completely ignore the "c++" part of your search, leaving you with pages of actual maps. Slightly exaggerated example since I can't remember any concrete ones off the top of my head, but the actual situat…

I also learned recently that if you search for a quoted string in gmail and there are no matches it will just show a few partial matches, instead of just telling you there were no hits. The google behavior you describe got so annoying for me, along with the inability to copy the link in the results, I switched to DDG. It still provides results that don’t include one of my search terms all the time. It’s really annoying behavior.

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

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Post by justin--sane »

singularity2001 wrote: post #562
bottled_poe wrote: post #546

I miss a functional democratically elected government. Too bad it was discontinued years ago :’-(

Direct Democracy. We had that 2500 years ago and it lead to the most amazing flourishing of culture, science, arts etc ... It has not honestly been tried since then. Maybe it became impractical because states grew too big. Now with the internet it could become practical again. Unfortunately it was opposed and subverted in the Pirate Party. I was shocked how many people are opposed to true democracy. They seem to conf…

Working quite well here in Switzerland...

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

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Post by anujdeshpande »

fphhotchips wrote: post #6

Google Reader. Now I have a mix of HN, Reddit and GMail, and none of them work really how I like.

Amen. Post reader I gave up on RSS because Feedly wasn't it for me. I even tried the one as part of Thunderbird.

I have been using https://elytra.app recently. Pretty happy so far (iOS only at the moment, but the developer is working on a web version)

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

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Post by sarpdag »

panic wrote: post #136

I miss the social features of the original del.icio.us. Pinboard is okay, but it's much harder to find other people to follow.

I miss it too because of that I am working on Zibillion as a hobby project currently, https://zibillion.com/ but it is not there yet.
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