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problem with this post is this "THE WORLD IS READY TO CASH IN ON THE WORST IDEAS OF THE ’90S." I disagree with that. I was working on tablets in the late 90s,
by andyidsinga 12y ago
problem with this post is this "THE WORLD IS READY TO CASH IN ON THE WORST IDEAS OF THE ’90S."
I disagree with that. I was working on tablets in the late 90s, online chat software too. Neither went anywhere. So "worst ideas" or too early or poorly executed? ..probably mostly the latter two.
- porsupah 12y agoIndeed, there are quite a few similar examples. Remember CUSeeMe, an early VoIP app? Now all but forgotten outside the HN crowd, and yet Skype managed quite well several years later. One could argue the Newton falls into that category, coming simply too early for pervasive (sometimes) high speed cellular data, where Palm/Handspring and RIM fared so well - even if transiently - later on.