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You got your wish just a couple of years later in the form of the Cybiko, a standalone device rather than a GBC addon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybiko htt
by LeoPanthera 5y ago
You got your wish just a couple of years later in the form of the Cybiko, a standalone device rather than a GBC addon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybiko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybiko
It sold something like half a million units so it wasn't a total failure.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoI had completely forgotten the design trend of "we threw some silly putty at the wall and this was the resulting shape."
- voidfunc 5y agoIt was the late 90s trend rejecting straight edges and boxy design that was so prevalent before it. It was an attempt to take computing out of the sterile office and make it something viewed as fun for consumer use at a time when computer adoption was basically ramping up. I don't miss the weird shaped stuff, what I do really miss is the fun colors and plastics from the 90s, especially the translucent colored Nintendo stuff.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoI personally like the move to having the fun colors and plastics be your phone case, though that doesn't really work for the translucent plastic.
- voidfunc 5y agoI guess I like to live dangerously, but I never use a case. That's also probably the reason I bought the red iPhone.
- crtasm 5y agoLGR retrospective on the Cybiko including a real world test of its wireless communications, 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38VEBOseAzM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38VEBOseAzM