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Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
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Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
#342The Macbook Pro chassis before the OLED touchstrip. I'm a web developer and learned on MBPs. The touchpad was the right size, the keys had the right amount of travel, the form factor and weight were perfect. Right now I'm considering moving to developing on a Galaga Pro and using Windows/WSL. I've got most things setup on my desktop how I like using HyperTerm (I had too much trouble with Cmder), VS Code, and ZSH. I c…
WSL is very, very slow. Be warned.
Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
#343Dr. Dobb's Journal
and Byte magazine.
Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
#344The 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…
Isn't a hamburger menu just a two-dimensional ellipsis?
Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
#345The zune.
Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
#346HP 200 LX
The Gemini looks interesting: https://www.planetcom.co.uk
Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
#347Eudora! Like, classic Eudora. The only good email client ever.
Came here to say the same thing. So amazingly fast, and the absolute best for filtering, sorting and searching through your email.
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#348Gmail (pre-August 2018)
Have you dug into the settings? I hated the change too, but found that the aspects I most hated (mostly the hover buttons that made everything jump around when used with the preview pane) were configurable.
The aspect I most hate is the load time. Takes about 6 seconds to start displaying emails. Is there something to be done about that? (Note: I'm using Firefox on a Mac.) I've been mostly using the "basic HTML" version, which loads in less than a second.
Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
#349Old-school Winamp. I use Spotify these days, but man it was fun to customise skins and play with the awesome visualisers. Half-Life 3 would also be nice, but I guess it was never "around" to begin with.
Webamp - "A reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and Javascript"
- Load any classic Winamp skin just by dragging it onto the main window. - If a skin specifies some transparent regions in its region.txt, they are respected.
Features - https://twitter.com/captbaritone/status/961274714013319168 Source - https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp
Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
#350Macbook Air
Still avail at the apple store I think.
Will never forget being in the audience at the unveil, watching Steve Jobs pull it out of an envelope.