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

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Post by fredley »

CiaranMcNulty wrote: post #445

Pebble - they created a series of smart watches that had: - long battery life (2-7 days depending on model) - e-ink colour screens, that were always on - an extensive app/watchface ecosystem - actual attractive watches I had a series of them and was all-in on the new models announced via kickstarter, when they suddenly disappeared and were bought by Fitbit. All forthcoming products were killed off. They've been prett…

The Pebble Time 2 was going to be the ultimate watch as far as I was concerned. Such a shame it never got made. I still love my old Pebble collection and wear them regularly. I have a Garmin, and it's good for running but garbage as a smartwatch compared to the experience I got used to with Pebble.

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

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Post by puzzlingcaptcha »

chrisparton1991 wrote: post #206

Old-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.

I've been using foobar2000 (win) or audacious (linux) as a replacement for winamp for close to a decade.

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

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Post by Shoue »

function_seven wrote: post #296
wishinghand wrote: post #202

The 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…

Apple has ditched so many cool things in the MacBook line. 1) MagSafe. I know they really want to go all in on USB-C, but the original MagSafe connector was awesome. Even the weaker 2.0 version was nice. There were two instances where that connector saved my laptop. 2) The laser-drilled power indicator. That was so cool. It looked like the light magically appeared through the aluminum. Now there's no indication whats…

I'd suggest looking into remapping caps lock to esc if you miss it. This is something I do even on my Dell XPS.

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

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Post by cimmanom »

Shoue wrote: post #543
function_seven wrote: post #296

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple has ditched so many cool things in the MacBook line. 1) MagSafe. I know they really want to go all in on USB-C, but the original MagSafe connector was awesome. Even the weaker 2.0 version was nice. There were two instances where that connector saved my laptop. 2) The laser-drilled power indicator. That was so cool. It looked like the light magically appeared through the aluminum. Now there's no indication whats…

I'd suggest looking into remapping caps lock to esc if you miss it. This is something I do even on my Dell XPS.

But then you can’t use caps lock for control...

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

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Post by puzzlingcaptcha »

Standalone Google Talk app, back when it could still federate with XMPP.

I'm so bitter about this I still run an ejabberd server for a close group of friends (things like central message archive or carbons finally work, and there is conversations for android)

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Post by hadrien01 »

avhon1 wrote: post #426
jplayer01 wrote: post #352

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imo, the hubs were really what made WP special and it would've been amazing with more third-party buy-in (which realistically was never going to happen). Going to a single centralized spot for social media or whatever else, instead of browsing through a dozen different apps, is such a great idea. I was totally on board with WP but then Microsoft bungled the later WP updates (my phone wasn't supported, and it was one…

Blackberry 10 OS had the same thing -- a unified location (called the hub) where all of you communication would go. It was great , except that third-party apps rarely (and decreasingly) integrated with it.

With Android, Blackberry changed its strategy and now integrated all social notifications into the Hub. But it just opens the corresponding conversation in the social app, you can't respond directly from the Hub (which should be possible to implement now with Nougat-style answer to notifications)

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

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Post by jamiegreen »

arsenico wrote: post #530
jamiegreen wrote: post #466

11 inch Macbook Air. Best laptop I have ever owned

Give a 12" MacBook a try. For me, that is the best laptop I've owned.

Thanks! The reason I haven't is I feel they went too far in the power/thinness balance. I never thought "if only my MacBook was a bit thinner". So I get less power and have to pay 1/3 as much again. The new ones seem so underpowered. Also I am not a fan of the new keyboard and they got rid of the mag connection for the power cable. Not convinced so far.
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