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

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 8:10 AM UTC

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #602

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…

Post by garfieldnate » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 8:48 AM UTC

Post by galfarragem » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 10:27 AM UTC

corodra wrote: post #784

More mentality than product, but I’m tired of companies not focusing on solving problems well and focusing more on generating a religion around their tech. I feel like prior to the iPod, things either worked well or didn’t. Now, you can put out the most half ass tech, generate a religion and have an “argument” against well matured tech and call for its death by fire. Looking at you NoSQL-anything. Maybe it’s always b…

Post by thirdsun » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 12:03 PM UTC

expertentipp wrote: post #370

kevinmchugh wrote: post #103

Grooveshark had a better interface for managing "currently playing" than anything I've used before or since. Most apps don't even track what's currently playing in an intelligent fashion. Similarly, rockbox was really great mp3 player firmware, when I used to use one of those. It had a funny feature I've never seen elsewhere: multi-lingual article-ignoring sort. I had German band "Die Prinzen" on that mp3 player, and…

Grooveshark was the only music streaming service I’ve been ever using. The way Grooveshark was slaughtered was despicable and turned me down to pay any subscriptions to the online music hienas. Years long curated playlists lost unrecoverably with the shutdown of the service :’(

Post by corodra » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 12:15 PM UTC

galfarragem wrote: post #966

corodra wrote: post #784

More mentality than product, but I’m tired of companies not focusing on solving problems well and focusing more on generating a religion around their tech. I feel like prior to the iPod, things either worked well or didn’t. Now, you can put out the most half ass tech, generate a religion and have an “argument” against well matured tech and call for its death by fire. Looking at you NoSQL-anything. Maybe it’s always b…

> Maybe it’s always been this way I don't think so. I used to link the 'evangeliser' word with religion, now I link it to tech. Steve Jobs 'presentation style' was an exception, now is the rule everywhere - companies hire evangelisers to preach about their products/agenda as the truth. Religions morph but they will never disappear.