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> An unreleased Steam competitor, codenamed Vapor, from Amazon Game Studios The choosing of the name Vapor is probably no accident when the main competitor is
by jsiepkes 5y ago
> An unreleased Steam competitor, codenamed Vapor, from Amazon Game Studios
The choosing of the name Vapor is probably no accident when the main competitor is Steam.
Just like when IBM launched the "Eclipse foundation" which was arguably based on one of Sun's most prized possessions; Java.
- bogwog 5y agoThat sounds like an internal product name. At launch they'll probably pick something significantly less clever and more generic. It would be pretty awesome if they stuck with "Vapor" though. It'd be some WWE-style drama, and great for marketing.
- scrollaway 5y agoWe could call games released on there Vaporware :)
- xdrosenheim 5y agoAnd sales would come in Vaporwaves.
- paxys 5y agoEclipse makes sense, but vapor is just..another word for steam?
- dijit 5y agoI worked for Nokia for a brief moment in time and the Nokia E71 (or another in that line) was internally codenamed "BeeBee" (like: blackberry) which was comical to me given that the phone looked a lot like a contemporary era blackberry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_E71 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_E71 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_Curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_Curve
- d3nj4l 5y agoThe E71 was a god tier device. Owned one for a good bit as a teen and it was the perfect phone for that time IMO. You could even WhatsApp on it until relatively recently.
- stevecat 5y agoYep! E71, E72, and E6 were some of my most loved phones. My love of that form factor meant that my first foray into Android was the HTC ChaCha - that was a mistake.
- kawsper 5y agoI had a Qtek 8300 running Windows Mobile 5.0, it really felt like a computing device before smart phones appeared. It was slow and buggy, but it felt like a handheld computer. Qtek rebranded to HTC and I bought a HTC Touch running Windows Mobile 6.0, I am not sure when or what I switched to afterwards, maybe an Android.
- epse 5y agoOh man qtek flashbacks. I had a 5050, great device but good lord the battery life ducked as soon as you connected to anything (and it only had mobile data, no WiFi, unless you put in an sd expansion card). No more battery? Then your data gets wiped
- Lorin 5y ago100% agreed, my first smart phone and I still miss some features to this day. Really great. Shame no one makes a physical keyboard attachment or a follow up Blackberry device.
- 14u2c 5y agoAlmost the exact same situation for me except it was the E61. I remember playing DOOM on it for the first time and being quite impressed.
- dfox 5y ago
- chrisjc 5y agoEclipse... Sun... how did I go all these years without noticing this!
- Arathorn 5y agoIBM weren't the only people to play that game. The codename for the SGI Indigo was also Eclipse, for similar reasons, iirc.
- monkeybutton 5y agoAnd where do explorers like to go? On safaris.
- Asraelite 5y agoKind of a funny choice when "vaporware" is a thing.
- checkyoursudo 5y agoOh ho ho! Vapor is what I call my shell function that launches Steam. Guess I am on to something.
- junon 5y agoIt won't work, I don't understand why they're bothering. You can't compete with steam, unless you're trying to hit a niche market.
- meibo 5y agoAmazon has even more money to throw at studios than Epic, so they can just force themselves into it.
- junon 5y agoThe problem isn't the product. I was going to compete with Steam at one point and we had objectively better systems and a better client. The problem was the critical mass issue - no users, no publishers, neither want to join without the other. Amazon will definitely get publishers but will users join? That's not a given.
- lbhdc 5y agoI would imagine they would attempt to secure exclusive rights to a popular title and only distribute it from their new platform. I believe that is what epic did when they launched their store.
- baud147258 5y agoEpic did that, plus giving away loads of free games, like a new free game every two weeks.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoYeah, and a lot of people loathe them for it. I'm one of them.
- trey-jones 5y agoAnd my axe.
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- incahoots 5y ago>vapor >vaporware I see no issue here
- adolph 5y agoAnother lovely naming story: When new sounds for System 7 were created, the sounds were reviewed by Apple's Legal Department who objected that the new sound alert "chime" had a name that was "too musical", under the recent settlement [with Beatles' record label Apple Records]. Jim Reekes, the creator of the new sound alerts for System 7, had grown frustrated with the legal scrutiny and first quipped it should be named "Let It Beep", a pun on "Let It Be". When someone remarked that that would not pass the Legal Department's approval, he remarked, "so sue me". After a brief reflection, he resubmitted the sound's name as sosumi (a homophone of "so sue me"). Careful to submit it in written form rather than spoken form to avoid pronunciation, he told the Legal Department that the name was Japanese and had nothing to do with music. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi
- darklycan51 5y agoAnyone who played new world private alpha new this, the first alpha (closed) had an amazon games Epic Games like client, they choose to remove it for new world public beta and release but I knew they had been working on it because of it