Comments on: The 20 Greatest Tech Underdogs of All Time

By: Interesting Factoids about Tech Underdogs | dec0der

Interesting Factoids about Tech Underdogs | dec0der — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:07:45 +0000

[...] looking at this list of The 20 Greatest Tech Underdogs of All Time from Technologizer, and while it’s as subjective as any other list, there’s a few [...]

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:36:00 +0000

I was hoping you’d mention GeoWorks, an OS that came out four months after Windows 3.0 and was, according to Computerworld, what Windows should have been. It was more technologically advanced, attractive, and came bundled with all the apps to get you started. It was also the first DOS-based platform for America Online. It ran on my then anemic hardware, and it had a small but loyal following for a few years – I was a user. It was a victim of the superior marketing power of Windows and it was a challenge for developers to write applications for it.

By: DubiousKing

DubiousKing — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:35:42 +0000

My mistake with my earlier comment, the Maltron prices are listed in pounds. It’s actually around 620 USD.

By: website design

website design — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:14:48 +0000

I on a Mac, and enjoy it, but I don’t have any kind of air of superiority about it. Some people need one, some don’t. Some people prefer one over the other – that’s their prerogative. I also have an HP laptop that works just fine, so I can’t complain about one over the other. I will say that I am not a fan of IE and its issues with “fixing” HTML code and reformatting pages in weird ways (more a problem of previous versions, like IE6 and IE7), but, that’s what Firefox is for.

By: mckenzie a.c. HMS

mckenzie a.c. HMS — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:42:42 +0000

wow that’s unreal

By: DubiousKing

DubiousKing — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:07:40 +0000

Looked up the Maltron keyboards. I’d probably buy one if it wasn’t $400. Guess I’ll just use KMFL to imitate it.

By: mk12

mk12 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:23:27 +0000

Macs aren’t underdogs anymore, for one thing, in hardware, Macs are very good quality, good graphics card (they don’t pack it full of garbage to sell it for less), etc., and in software, OS X is infinitely better than windows. And they are becoming the top dog with their brilliant marketing.

By: Tech

Tech — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:16:51 +0000

I wish firewire didn’t dissapear. I loved using it back in the day.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:13:28 +0000

Firefox has also often been known as “FoxFire”, to folks that are not tech geeks like us. But they’ve happened to see Firefox at some point in their computing lives, and apparently are dyslexic when it comes to that name, for some reason.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:34:00 +0000

I’d probably like this more if it were underdog restaurants or food, but that would be a different blog.

The plural of human interface “mouse” is “mouses” not “mice.”

Umm, Screenwriter is the underdog to Final Cut, does that count?

Cool stuff, but I’m not as big a geek as I thought…