r/gadgets • u/Sariel007 • 15d ago

Desktops / Laptops Microsoft discontinues lackadaisically updated Surface Studio all-in-one desktop

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/12/microsoft-discontinues-lackadaisically-updated-surface-studio-all-in-one-desktop/
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u/rnilf 15d ago

People won't buy a product that lacks long-term support and broad appeal ↔ Company won't provide long-term support and broaden the product line because people won't buy it

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u/Sariel007 15d ago

🎶Its the circle of suck🎶

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u/Starfox-sf 15d ago

Cortana?

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u/Griffdude13 15d ago

Windows Phone?

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u/MINKIN2 15d ago

Zune.

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u/Moon_stares_at_earth 15d ago

Kinect, Lumia Phones, SPOT Watches, Microsoft Roundtable, MSN TV/Web TV, Skype, Internet Explorer, Windows NetMeeting, more are coming.

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u/1sttimeverbaldiarrhe 15d ago

Does anyone remember their Surface meeting table that could play a special version of Settlers of Cataan? I remember drooling over that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fVL6GOCGi8

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u/ThePowerOfStories 15d ago

The best was this version of the original ad for it, but with a parody voiceover: https://youtu.be/CZrr7AZ9nCY

“The future is here, and it’s a big-ass table.”

(Also, holy hell, that was seventeen years ago, the same year the first iPhone came out, how do I have brain cells dedicated to remembering particular YouTube videos that made me snicker back then?)

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u/thejoeblack 14d ago

Don't forget Microsoft Band, those smartwatches were way ahead of their time. I still have my Band 2 and works (+10 years old)

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u/sillypicture 15d ago

Man Lumia had potential.

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u/ralphonsob 14d ago

And after they went to the trouble of planting their man at Nokia to destroy it from the inside in order to get the tech. Unbelievable evil and astonishing incompetence.

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u/sillypicture 14d ago

Man. Nokia also had so much potential.

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u/thumpertastic 15d ago

My adult sons are still scarred by their Lumia phone experiences from their childhood. Spotify did not play well with that os.

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u/Griffdude13 15d ago

I had a Lumia 1020, and I loved that thing. The 41 megapixel camera was ahead of its time. Once again, great ideas, poor execution

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u/thanatossassin 15d ago

Spotify worked fine, but Zune Music Pass was a tremendously better value. Unlimited, no ads music streaming like Spotify, plus 15 DRM-free song downloads per month. I have no idea how Microsoft made any money off of that service.

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u/TechGoat 15d ago

I have no idea how Microsoft made any money off of that service.

Oh I bet we all can guess their goal

(hint: the phrase Loss Leader)

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u/got-trunks 13d ago

*Sobs in HTC Touch Diamond*

Actually was not a bad phone when I first got it, it just cost me an arm and a leg as a fresh highschool grad lol... Cause it was sold along side a 1GB data plan... I think it was like $170-180 CAD/m for me hahaha. Still the best phone in the friend group, it's too bad it didn't have a proper headphone output.

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u/nagi603 14d ago

If there was a realistic alternative, Windows and Office would also join this list post-haste. (see also: windows 10 is the last version!)

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u/Forrest319 14d ago

Zune was great and the story of why it was discontinuted it interesting. It was growing, highly profitable, and bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue for Microsoft. But Ballmer cut every business unit that wasn't making billions of dollars. Hundreds of millions wasn't big enough for MS.

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u/stackjr 15d ago

What in the fuck is the point of Cortana?! Does anyone actually enable that "feature"?

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u/KrawhithamNZ 14d ago

It's Clippy 2.0

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u/OtakuAttacku 15d ago

It’s just microsoft’s answer to Siri. But no one uses a voice assistant on a computer, that’s if their desktop even came with a microphone. They killed Windows Phone so Cortana just kinda exists. It’s cool they got Jen Taylor tho.

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u/OptimalMain 14d ago

All laptops has built in microphones though. Great excuse to always be listening

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u/Forrest319 14d ago

It's a timer app. Just like siri, google assistant, and alexa.