My definition for success is - do they still exist
Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
by timschmidt on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @06:40PM
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Comcast and AT&T still exist. Kraft still turns out war rations by the warehouse. Tasteless grocery store tomatoes are still the most widely available.
This metric has very little to do with quality.
Those are horrible examples. The product lines you are discussing do not exist in any meaningful sense of the term.
Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
by timschmidt on Friday May 23, 2025 @02:02PM
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LuneOS - the direct continuation of WebOS development had a release in Feb 2024 and is still under active development: https://webos-ports.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pretty good for something that supposedly failed 12 years ago.
Both Microsoft phones and WebOS have surviving communities today, and would have thriving communities if management had stuck with them.
Sadly, it takes more than two consecutive quarters to establish a platform.