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 xref » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 2:53 AM UTC

letientai299 wrote: post #11

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

amen, I'm still limping along with it on Windows 10 but nothing else compares at all for managing your original photos. (I also use Google photos but that is a recompressed jpeg copy of your original)

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

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Post by brandonmenc » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 2:55 AM UTC

Mary Janes, the candy.

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

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Post by firdaus » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 2:55 AM UTC

- glitch (the game) - Ubuntu Linux with Unity - Posterous - Ducksboard

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

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Post by kleinmatic » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 2:55 AM UTC

Google Reader, QuarkXPress 3.2, Lotus Improv.

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

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Post by xref » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 2:55 AM UTC

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.

I'm gonna say Reader was like a dysfunctional relationship for me, once they shut it down and I had to move on (currently using newsblur.com) I saw how good an actively devoped RSS app could be

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

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Post by plessthanpt05 » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 2:56 AM UTC

Taptu (rss reader app)

Google news and weather app (not the horrible new Google news app with all those annoying animations)

Flagship/higher-end phones with a headphone jack

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

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Post by newnewpdro » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 2:56 AM UTC

lykr0n wrote: post #27

newnewpdro wrote: post #20

IBM ThinkPads

The Lenovo ThinkPads are surprisingly not that bad

The Lenovo consolation prize does little to fulfill my want for a modernized classic IBM ThinkPad.

Lenovo has become so bad that Linux-oriented shops have started pivoting to Dells.

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

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Post by theshadowmonkey » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 2:57 AM UTC

Google Reader

I loved the simplicity and the usability aspects of it. I use Feedly these days. But, I hope reader was around.

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

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Post by doubt_me » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 2:57 AM UTC

Anybody from Germany want to ship me some Red Bull Cola?

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

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Post by LeoPanthera » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 2:58 AM UTC

HyperCard.

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