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by sircastor 744 days ago
I think the Chumby came out just a little too late. Great idea, but like so many things the post-iPhone-smartphone began to fill all the roles that those things filled

I was thinking about the brief life of the dedicated flash video cameras. They were more capable than phones of the era, but they couldn’t share on their own.
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duskwuff 744 days ago
The Chumby also came out early enough that it had to rely on Flash Lite [1] for authoring content. This severely limited the audience that could build content for it; if it had came out a bit later, with better hardware, it could have potentially been used to display HTML content, and things might have gone differently.

[1]: https://www.adobe.com/mena_en/products/flashlite/

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userbinator 744 days ago
I was thinking about the brief life of the dedicated flash video cameras. They were more capable than phones of the era, but they couldn’t share on their own.

Those are still used in environments where that is a feature, not a bug.

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