Tamagotchi Connection
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Tamagotchi Connection
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#2My daughter got into Tamagotchi last month (JUL-2023). It is interesting that such a simple game/toy fascinates my daughter, who was born after the iPhone's release and just before the iPad came to being. She can go on a long story and backstories that I wonder how I missed a lot of things growing up in the 90s.
These toys are very costly and hard to come by in India.
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#3My daughter got into Tamagotchi last month (JUL-2023). It is interesting that such a simple game/toy fascinates my daughter, who was born after the iPhone's release and just before the iPad came to being. She can go on a long story and backstories that I wonder how I missed a lot of things growing up in the 90s. These toys are very costly and hard to come by in India.
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#4I still have a perfectly working v4, these things were built to last.
Lots of kids at my school had one back then, but they were mostly the more basic chinese knockoffs. If you had a real one, you were one of the cool kids.
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#5I still have a perfectly working v4, these things were built to last. Lots of kids at my school had one back then, but they were mostly the more basic chinese knockoffs. If you had a real one, you were one of the cool kids.
Electronics like that do last, unless they don't want them to. Original Gameboys are still going. I expect most that have failed were destroyed by water or battery leakage or something.
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#6My daughter got into Tamagotchi last month (JUL-2023). It is interesting that such a simple game/toy fascinates my daughter, who was born after the iPhone's release and just before the iPad came to being. She can go on a long story and backstories that I wonder how I missed a lot of things growing up in the 90s. These toys are very costly and hard to come by in India.
Relevant: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/iot/efficiently-managing-millio...
I don't get it. Why are they using such a complicated infrastructure for something that can just be a static file polled by devices? Let's get nifty and maybe have a small php intermediary for slow roll. Assuming 10M devices, 24h polling sounds reasonable that's 10M requests/day. A VPS should be able to handle that.
(I'm saying this as someone who managed OTA for 1M smartphones that way 10yrs ago)
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#7I still have a perfectly working v4, these things were built to last. Lots of kids at my school had one back then, but they were mostly the more basic chinese knockoffs. If you had a real one, you were one of the cool kids.
It could be worse. I had a fake not-working plastic tamagotchi thingy that isn't in anyway a piece of electronic, or at least that's how I remembered it.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Relevant: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/iot/efficiently-managing-millio...
I don't get it. Why are they using such a complicated infrastructure for something that can just be a static file polled by devices? Let's get nifty and maybe have a small php intermediary for slow roll. Assuming 10M devices, 24h polling sounds reasonable that's 10M requests/day. A VPS should be able to handle that. (I'm saying this as someone who managed OTA for 1M smartphones that way 10yrs ago)
Being complicated and involving many AWS services benefits Amazon in a few ways, lock in and revenue being the big ones.
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#9My daughter got into Tamagotchi last month (JUL-2023). It is interesting that such a simple game/toy fascinates my daughter, who was born after the iPhone's release and just before the iPad came to being. She can go on a long story and backstories that I wonder how I missed a lot of things growing up in the 90s. These toys are very costly and hard to come by in India.
As someone who grew up during the first tamagochi wave I think a lot of what made games like these fascinating is that they were so simple and the graphics so barren — as a kid you just fill in the blanks with your fantasy. So the outcome can be much more personal than whatever high polished graphics thing of the day.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't get it. Why are they using such a complicated infrastructure for something that can just be a static file polled by devices? Let's get nifty and maybe have a small php intermediary for slow roll. Assuming 10M devices, 24h polling sounds reasonable that's 10M requests/day. A VPS should be able to handle that. (I'm saying this as someone who managed OTA for 1M smartphones that way 10yrs ago)
Being complicated and involving many AWS services benefits Amazon in a few ways, lock in and revenue being the big ones.
But as Bandai, don't I want something simpler and cheaper? Why would I opt for something more complex and be sticky with one vendor?