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Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

358 points ofalkaed | 1 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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gmuslera ◴[11 Oct 25 22:48 UTC] No.45553332[source]▶
Maemo/Meego. I know there is Sailfish still around, but things would had been very different today if Nokia had put all its weight on it back then.
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JoshTriplett ◴[12 Oct 25 03:30 UTC] No.45554960[source]▶
I loved my N900, and my N800 before that, and I would have loved to have seen successors. Ultimately, I ended up switching to Android because I was tired of things only available as apps. Since then, web technologies have gotten better, and it's become much more feasible to use almost exclusively websites.
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1. bitwize ◴[12 Oct 25 06:05 UTC] No.45555676[source]▶
> it's become much more feasible to use almost exclusively websites.

And that's precisely why companies nerf their web sites and put a little popup that says "<service> works better on the app".