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For historical precedent see Xerox Parc.

by beachy 3y ago

readyplayernull 3y ago
IBM, Intel, Apple's Newton.
- chillfox 3y ago
  Kodak
  - Forgeties79 3y ago
    Man I remember my last semester of college taking a history of photography course that was only offered every 3-4 years by a pretty legendary professor. The the day before the first day of class (or super close), Eastman Kodak declared bankruptcy after what? 110 years? He scrapped his day 1 lecture and threw together a talk - with photos of course - about Kodak and how an intrepid engineer developed then the company foolishly hid the first digital camera because it would compete with their film line. Incredible lecturer for sure haha
- klodolph 3y ago
  The story I like to tell for the Newton is that it was launched before the technology was ready yet. Like the Sega Game Gear. Old video phones. All those tablets that launched before the iPad. They’re good ideas, but they shipped a few years too early, and the technology to make them work well at a good price point wasn’t available until later. Like, the Sega Game Gear had a cool active matrix LCD screen, but it took six AA batteries and the batteries only lasted like four hours.
  - technofiend 3y ago
    The Palm Pilot V had a dockable cell phone modem, but the connectivity wasn't integrated into the OS. It worked but only as a demonstration. Then Palm released a model with integrated data, but the BlackBerry came out the same year. You can be first and still if someone comes along with a much more compelling product, that's the end of you. Google has a few years left as a search company, but their enshittification of results has doomed them to replacement by LLMs. They seem to have forgotten Google pushed out their predecessors by having the best search results. Targeted advertisements don't qualify.
  - Rinzler89 3y ago
    >and the batteries only lasted like four hours Still more than the OG Steam Deck today :)
    - sofixa 3y ago
      Vastly depends on the game played and the settings. In a plane (so airplane mode, with Bluetooth headset) I played Hitman Absolution for 3 hours and still had 50%+ of the battery left. It was on minimal brightness because it was dark and didn't need more, but still.
      - Rinzler89 3y ago
        Yeah, no need to take a (semi)joke literally and go all technical to debunk it. Though without optimizations, battery life on the deck was lucky to hit 2h at first before valve brought in updates and people learned they had to cap resolution and FPS to increase battery life.

For historical precedent see Xerox Parc.

by beachy 3y ago

For historical precedent see Xerox Parc.

readyplayernull 3y ago

IBM, Intel, Apple's Newton.

chillfox 3y ago
Kodak
- Forgeties79 3y ago
  Man I remember my last semester of college taking a history of photography course that was only offered every 3-4 years by a pretty legendary professor. The the day before the first day of class (or super close), Eastman Kodak declared bankruptcy after what? 110 years? He scrapped his day 1 lecture and threw together a talk - with photos of course - about Kodak and how an intrepid engineer developed then the company foolishly hid the first digital camera because it would compete with their film line. Incredible lecturer for sure haha
klodolph 3y ago
The story I like to tell for the Newton is that it was launched before the technology was ready yet. Like the Sega Game Gear. Old video phones. All those tablets that launched before the iPad. They’re good ideas, but they shipped a few years too early, and the technology to make them work well at a good price point wasn’t available until later. Like, the Sega Game Gear had a cool active matrix LCD screen, but it took six AA batteries and the batteries only lasted like four hours.
- technofiend 3y ago
  The Palm Pilot V had a dockable cell phone modem, but the connectivity wasn't integrated into the OS. It worked but only as a demonstration. Then Palm released a model with integrated data, but the BlackBerry came out the same year. You can be first and still if someone comes along with a much more compelling product, that's the end of you. Google has a few years left as a search company, but their enshittification of results has doomed them to replacement by LLMs. They seem to have forgotten Google pushed out their predecessors by having the best search results. Targeted advertisements don't qualify.
- Rinzler89 3y ago
  >and the batteries only lasted like four hours Still more than the OG Steam Deck today :)
  - sofixa 3y ago
    Vastly depends on the game played and the settings. In a plane (so airplane mode, with Bluetooth headset) I played Hitman Absolution for 3 hours and still had 50%+ of the battery left. It was on minimal brightness because it was dark and didn't need more, but still.
    - Rinzler89 3y ago
      Yeah, no need to take a (semi)joke literally and go all technical to debunk it. Though without optimizations, battery life on the deck was lucky to hit 2h at first before valve brought in updates and people learned they had to cap resolution and FPS to increase battery life.