Sega Dreamcast. All Sony had to say was "PS2 is coming next year" and everyone stopped listening to what they could get today.
Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?
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WPF hasn't succeeded? What am I missing?
WPF definitely falls in the didn't succeed category. Microsoft grossly mismanaged everything around WPF and C# during the Sinofsky era. It's doing much better on the C# side today but the UI developer community left WPF long ago and will never return.
WPF is still pretty much the standard on Windows but it definitely could be much better. They just abandoned it and then went on these weird detours with Silverlight, WinRT and now UWP.
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#33The mugshot project. 2006. it could have been so much. But it was ahead of its time, I guess. (Disclaimer: I might be biased, I work at Red Hat)
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#34Rdio. Music Streaming service. Not sure what happened after they closed up shop but the UI was beautiful and they had great performance.
The interface got rolled into Pandora Premium after they were acquired.
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#35Changetip was neat but got acquihired and shut down
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#36Google Inbox. And I don’t “find my favorite Inbox features in Gmail”. If you can’t tell I’m still bitter about it :(
Email enhancement products need an offbeat name like Superhuman, not a noun every email program already has (inbox). Seeing it in the App Store, how would I know I don’t already have it?
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#37Parse (although it lives on as open source and other providers, see. https://buddy.com/blog/parse-buddy-forever-free-full-feature... for example) Microsoft's WPF
How does firebase compare to what parse was? Edit: I’ve used firebase a lot and found it to be a great experience, enabling some of the most rapid product development I’ve ever done. Real-time db, login, cloud functions, and integration with google cloud are all great. Just wondering if there’s something cool or different about parse/buddy worth looking into. Also curious if it was different than firebase and wonder…
At least when I was using it a few years ago, I found Parse to be more intuitive and polished. Their DB browser and filter/query tools were terrific, and a great deal of the platform was (eventually) open-sourced.
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I’m a Linux die hard fan, but the Windows Phone was indeed a great product. I liked mine!
Never owned one, but interested about what made it great?
I had one. I think the interface was great. The OS was buttery smooth. Can't really remember the details but I really liked it.
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#39Re: Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Never owned one, but interested about what made it great?
I had one. I think the interface was great. The OS was buttery smooth. Can't really remember the details but I really liked it.
Ah cool. Btw, my question was not sarcastic - just genuine curiosity.