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Re: Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

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Post by hussong »

abacadaba wrote: post #487
gcb0 wrote: post #412

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you only think you liked unity because now you despise gnome3. the sooner you accept the gnome legacy is dead and move on to kde the better. I know it will be difficult, but it's inevitable.

MATE will still be here waiting patiently when you're ready.

This. I was hanging on to Ubuntu 16.04 until a month ago just to keep Unity. After finally upgrading to 18.04, I spent a week on Gnome 3 and it was quite a frustrating experience.

Found Ubuntu Mate and am loving it! MATE Tweak gives you so many options to make the UI work like Unity, even better in some ways. The only thing I missed were application shortcuts, but now the fancy dock works just as well for me.

Re: Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

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Post by quickthrower2 »

colejohnson66 wrote: post #579
fabricexpert wrote: post #472

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> Totally illegal business model It was no different to YouTube’s...

Are you referring to VEVO? Because VEVO is entirely legal

VEVO isn’t all music on Youtube

Re: Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

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Post by wyclif »

thomasec wrote: post #622
wyclif wrote: post #610

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I'd love to get a TB500 with the single coils and single volume and tone controls, but I don't think EGC makes them right now.

This is my grail guitar. I've been reaching out to random people for the last few years trying to acquire one. Not easy to find!

That's why I wish they'd start making them again. My interest in the TB500 has nothing to do with scarcity or collectibility—I think they're practical guitars for heavy usage. They seem almost unbreakable and they have a utilitarian quality.

I would snap this up in an instant, if I had $100K+ in discretionary money lying around: https://reverb.com/item/16339446-travis-bean-tb500-14-1976-w...

Re: Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

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thomasec wrote: post #622
wyclif wrote: post #610

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I'd love to get a TB500 with the single coils and single volume and tone controls, but I don't think EGC makes them right now.

This is my grail guitar. I've been reaching out to random people for the last few years trying to acquire one. Not easy to find!

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Re: Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

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Post by milkytron »

xeeeeeeeeeeenu wrote: post #264
milkytron wrote: post #181

WebOS. When I used it, I saw it as a blend between Android and iOS. It had the beauty, polish, and responsiveness that I loved on iPhones, but had the developer options and open community that Android had. It was a great product, and it's a shame that now we really only have two choices for smartphone operating system, WebOS being neither.

>responsiveness No, this one isn't true. Performance was one of the biggest problems of webOS. WebOS user forums were full of posts complaining about that. UI built with HTML and JavaScript rendered by Webkit1 was way too much for 2000s hardware to handle.

I was running WebOS on the HP TouchPad. And it was much more pleasant to use than Android on tablets at the time. I meant to the responsiveness from scrolling and swiping through pages.

Re: Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

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Post by milkytron »

sarthakjshetty wrote: post #371
milkytron wrote: post #181

WebOS. When I used it, I saw it as a blend between Android and iOS. It had the beauty, polish, and responsiveness that I loved on iPhones, but had the developer options and open community that Android had. It was a great product, and it's a shame that now we really only have two choices for smartphone operating system, WebOS being neither.

Dieter Bohn is that you?

Nope.

Re: Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

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Post by milkytron »

bni wrote: post #609
lintroller wrote: post #194

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I recently helped a friend wall mount a new smart TV and when the boot animation displayed WebOS, it made me incredibly disappointed about how far it had fallen.

Its the best "SmartTV" platform by far. The competition doesn't offer up much of a fight though.

Better than AndroidTV?

On my nexus player I was able to install Kodi, which I love for all the formats it supports. Roku doesn't support nearly as many formats.

Re: Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?

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Post by piccolbo »

daxterspeed wrote: post #124
jonas21 wrote: post #89

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Just curious, which features are you bitter about? I was a long-time Inbox user and was dreading the day I'd have to switch back to Gmail. But now that I've done it, I've found that I don't really miss Inbox at all.

Personally it's the bundles and pinning. The bundles just worked more consistently than Gmail's tabs and made it feels fast (and safe!) to quickly archive a bunch of promo emails you weren't currently interested in. Stars can be made to work like pinned e-mails, sort of, but it not consistent across the mobile app and the website and the UX just feels unresponsive in comparison. Pinned emails were much better separat…

Bundles are like thematic inboxes. So I can go into work mode, family mode, news mode and stay there for a while but look only at things that have not been taken care of yet. If you try and replicate that with a filter, inbox actively prevents it (label: something AND in:inbox). It won't show anything. Even apple mail allows that. Also the de-emphasis of read/unread status. You can archive without reading more than the subject, and it doesn't show in all the unread counts etc. When unread counts are so much in your face, it's hard to ignore them.
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