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

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Post by thirdsun »

luxpsycho wrote: post #762

Not the product itself, but there were only two features of Spotify around ~2010 that I used, which have both been removed: * Set as Current Playlist: would allow me, with one action, to set the next playlist, but not interrupt the current song. Song would finish playing, then only song from selected playlist would follow (until I'd set a new 'Current Playlist' again). * Empty Playlist: I used to have a plsylist call…

Sounds like you used it as a replacement for a sane queue system. Rdio had it and it allowed to persistently queue songs, albums or even playlists across any rdio client.

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

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Post by dolbyzerr »

Moves app, it was a fitness tracker startup, bought by Facebook and recently closed. I was logging all my movements with it as a lifelogging app. It worked pretty well and I had 5 years of my data there. Maybe it wasn't the best fitness tracker app but it was the best movement tracker. Now I am using Gyroscope but the data is kind of lost.

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Post by justtopost »

panic wrote: post #169
jdlyga wrote: post #33

I really miss AIM. It's great having real-time conversations with people you know are online. Facebook Messenger is similar, but it doesn't fill quite the same need.

I think that feeling has more to do with the way people used the internet than it does with AIM itself. Nobody "goes online" any more. Now we're always online, so it's less special.

But statuses were VERY useful, and we have no analog today.

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

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Post by justtopost »

IdontRememberIt wrote: post #69

All nationally emblematic products that have now be sent to China for production. (I am Swiss, so when I see a pure "Swiss product" actually made in China, I feel uncomfortable about the marketing trying to highlight the Swissness of a Chinese product especially when they are considered luxury: Bally shoes, Sigg bottles, ...)

A US state went so far as to ban sale of US flags not made in the country. It was seen as a xenophobic statement then, but starting to change now.

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

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Post by justtopost »

chadiem wrote: post #963

Flagship smartphones with a plastic body and a removable battery. For those who do not need the waterproof feature, and need the ability to go from 0% to 100% in a few seconds.

The samsung S5 line has headphone port, waterproofing, removable battery, sim, micro sd. Why compromise?

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

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Post by justtopost »

gwlperl wrote: post #80

The Acura Integra (or anything like it 3-door hatchbacks are all mostly gone). TV's with more than 3 HDMI inputs.

Problem is, the integra had independent wishbone/multilink suspension, that was much more expensive to produce and maintain than todays McStrut cars. There will not likely be an economy car with amazing suspension in that manner again until electrics are cheap, due to price factors alone. Even BMW moved to struts. Thankfully the new Mx5 are just as good as they were in the 90s fo those who lack cargo... and passengers.

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Post by snazz »

kgc wrote: post #342
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…

WSL is very, very slow. Be warned.

The only time that it’s painfully slow in my experience compared to native Linux is installing packages with apt.

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Post by [deleted] »

bayindirh wrote: post #472
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…

While I also love MagSafe and its features, wouldn't having a more standard port is much better? iPhones are constantly bashed by a group of users because of not having USB-C connectors. Having four USB-C ports with identical capabilities on a MacBook pro is a more pragmatic and flexible solution to have, when compared to MagSafe. On the power level and power button issue, Apple changes its features to shape customer…

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Post by Siilwyn »

aethr wrote: post #334
numbsafari wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My wife still rues the loss of Grooveshark. She’s never recovered. I don’t blame her. All other streaming services suck horribly.

The ability to quickly spin up a "radio broadcast" in Grooveshark for friends was amazing. With a small group of five friends we set up a Friday DJ rotation where one person would queue songs all day and the others listen in. All the "broadcasts" got saved as playlists, which you could "favourite" from your own account and go back to whenever you wanted. People could make requests when they had a "next track" that wo…

You might like https://jukebox.today/ for listening with a group.

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

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Post by birchy »

Eudora email client. I still use one of the last versions. I don't know how I'd function without the filing systems and filtering features, as well as the easy to manage multiple POP accounts ("personalties") and the templates ("stationary"). It just makes juggling everything so much easier.
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