An operating system which would run all modern games and be good enough for development such like the Linux is (i.e. being posix compliant-ish and have all the open source tools helps). I think open source MS Windows with all the spyware removed would be nice.
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess some of the semantics I've mentioned in my comment were wrong. I don't care about Battle.net, Facebook and Slack. All I want is to open ONE IM app, enter friend's name, send them a message, and receive message from them in the same place. And I don't want to know who's on Facebook and who's on Yahoo Messenger. I don't even wanna see those icons next to people's names or anything. And I want it to have a web c…
If there was a billion dollar company to build on this premise, someone would have. In practice, users don't care about having to install five different messengers and not using their own clients.
Do you suggest that all billion dollar companies have been already founded and there's nothing new which can be done? I find such way of thinking harmful.
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#104Who is this app. You take a picture of a person and app looks through your fb and LinkedIn contacts and gives you short description if you know this person and their interests.
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#105Something that kills proprietary feed algorithms on popular social websites, and lets you browse data chronogically
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#106An operating system which would run all modern games and be good enough for development such like the Linux is (i.e. being posix compliant-ish and have all the open source tools helps). I think open source MS Windows with all the spyware removed would be nice.
https://www.reactos.org/
Yeah, there's hope.
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#107Sports (and events) Netflix/live streaming. That would kill cable for sure. A curated "channel-like" experience for Netflix/YouTube shows. There's a LOT of good content out there, but it's hard to filter. And the "channel" experience of surfing and switching between programs has been kind of lost. A different kind of smartphone, with actual buttons. Or maybe even what one manufacturer (Samsung?) tried to do, splittin…
"Sports (and events) Netflix/live streaming"
The issue here is rights.
The rights to this content are very tightly controlled, it's very expensive, and contracts are allocated usually in the billions.
It would take a startup literally with billions to 'out bid' some entity for right to a sport, and then make it available.
FYI - if you subscribe to ESPN etc. for cable, I believe they actually do have streaming available, but since I'm in Canada, I can't say for sure.
It's not a technology issue, it's a value-chain issue.
A lot of entertainment markets are kind of screwed up because of this - and how arcane some of the systems are.
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#108A service that provides a URL for a song. Right now if I write a tweet or a blog post that links to a song there is at least a 10% chance (even if to is an official post by the artist) that a few weeks from now the URL will be bad.
Some official service that the label can update when it decides to change it's "official streaming partner" would be great.
Perhaps it can be done without the cooperating of the artists/label. There are only some 100 million songs out there.
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#109An automated ironing appliance. Drop unsorted clothes in, they come out ironed on the other side.
Sounds easy in theory but the machine would need to figure out how to sort any kind of clothing and may require a lot of space.
How about restricting only to dress shirts and having an automated inflatable dummy that uses steam to "iron" from inside out?
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#110A robot to clean my bathroom, clean the floors, tidy up, do my laundry.