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Spiritually maybe. The lineage between the two isn't official.
Windows NT is what the project Microsoft was working on as their planned next version of OS/2 got renamed after Microsoft and IBM broke off their partnership and IBM kept OS/2.
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/OS%2f2+NT
Also, Wikipedia "OS/2 NT" redirects to Windows NT.
The "Metro" design language of the Zune devices, including the HD, influenced the Windows Phone and other Microsoft products. The Zune was the first device to have the tile layout many miss from the Windows Phone.
Zune Music Pass, an all-you-can-listen monthly music subscription service à la Spotify, was way before its time. I think it was the first such offering ever.
Unfortunately its "app store" had a total of 47 apps. On the plus side, you can install every Zune app ever at once :P
It also runs IE5, I think? Maybe IE6? It barely supported CSS at all.
iPod Nano (6th gen) and to a lesser extent, the iPod Shuffle. It’s the best clip-on music player I’ve ever used, and there’s a void now with it being fully discontinued. I’m not a fan of their intended replacement (iPhone + Bluetooth headphones) due to weight and the headphone options available.
The replacement is more likely the Apple Watch and wireless head / earphones.
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There's still hope in this front
technically it wouldn't take much (or anything really) for people to transition to a v6 overlay network and get this back again. but i'm afraid that the value of an intermediary-free internet isn't really perceptible enough to drive adoption, even if you made it completely painless. I meet an awful lot of people, even in tech, that are surprised and shocked that you can use a computer thats not sitting right in front…
Google's Nexus 7 might qualify. A really great tablet at an affordable price that got one minor refresh then was cancelled. I see Palm already mentioned. Neo Geo. Obviously everything I have done was great--too advanced for its time to succeed.
I still use my Nexus 7 almost daily! I have the refreshed model with the 1080p screen, and it's still going strong. Not the fastest or most up to date tablet, but internet browsing, email, and basic things all still work flawlessly. Great product, competitive sector.
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I still wear my Pebble every day and am not looking forward to the day when it conks out. The thing that blows me away is no one has really swooped in to replace it. I got a Pebble because I wanted an always-on screen with high battery life (I charge mine roughly once every 5 days), and I have no idea where I'm going to find one when the time comes.
I've an amazfit bip; battery lasts about a month...
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technically it wouldn't take much (or anything really) for people to transition to a v6 overlay network and get this back again. but i'm afraid that the value of an intermediary-free internet isn't really perceptible enough to drive adoption, even if you made it completely painless. I meet an awful lot of people, even in tech, that are surprised and shocked that you can use a computer thats not sitting right in front…
More relevantly its also largely out of the power of citizens to make the transition. Especially in the US where you often have no choice in ISP, if they don't provide static IPv6 addresses theres nothing you can do.
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It could have held it's own technologically, except that SEGA were complete dumbshits and their console supported burned CDRs out of the box. That was a coup de grace.
I had a friend with a Dreamcast he had to mod it to play CDRs as the Dreamcast had a different CD format to hold more info. They had to reduce the CD to fit in a 700M CDR. Most games didn't use the full CD. Google mod chips some time they had them for the Playstation and XBox to use CDRs.
An exploit was found due to the console support for CD's with multimedia support, called MIL CDs. Initially a bootdisc was needed which you swapped with a CD-R, later all dumps of games were done in such a way that the exploit was bundled.
You are correct though in that some games used the full 1GB+ capacity of the GD-ROM format and assets had to be removed/compressed in some cases.
Nokia linux tablets/phones n800x series and their Maemo OS
Maemo was great. I still have an N770 and N810 kicking around.