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> I also have mixed feelings about Kevin but he also had Pownce (which to this day I still think had some legs) Ah, I wish Pownce had taken off as well ! The i

> I also have mixed feelings about Kevin but he also had Pownce (which to this day I still think had some legs) Ah, I wish Pownce had taken off as well ! The idea and the execution was really cool and it had features that WhatApp and the likes are still missing (agenda, file sharing on the top of my mind). I don't know why it didn't take off. Adobe Air ?

bantunes 11y ago
"There is a lesson here for ambitious system architects: the most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs