Comments by "belstar" (@belstar1128) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. The time period where this happened was a pretty bad time for India and most other non western countries apart from japan. i think even in the year 2000 less than 1% of the Indian population owned a pc. i didn't see any Indians online until around 2010. there where already a lot of people from eastern Europe and Latin America with internet access in the early 2000s .nowadays India has come a long way so they can have more success making good software.
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  2. Everyone wanted to become some kind of socialist back in this time period. i think the worst time to start a new country was the cold war.
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  3. Clearly a horrible idea for something as complex as computers. that may have been a good idea for the car industry or radios. but with computers you also want 3rd party software and hardware. and sometimes the best stuff is made in other countries.
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  4.  @chinesesparrows  yea their takes on copyright are the worst. Nintendo rarely interacts with the fans Japanese music labels are also still refusing to upload their stuff to YouTube while in most countries they started doing this in 2010. I heard about an old Japanese computer that had super good specs for the time. but apparently you needed a lisence to make 3rd party software for it and had a lockout chip similar to the nes. but this was a pc so it really limited the amount of 3rd party support
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  5. in the case of software its just that if you are not first don't bother you can have the best operating system in the world but its never going to be as popular as windows
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  6. Yea india has improved a lot in recent decades so this time they have a chance. in the 1970s they where a mess of poverty and Bureaucracy.
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  7. no all the countries with high birth rates are very poor
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  8. the marketing was also horrible i saw an ad for it once but i had no idea what it was supposed to do. if i knew what it was i would have tried it since it was awesome . but it was just some strange cryptic catchphrases .
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  9. yea but the thing with video games is that there is always demand for more .but with non video game software its not .not a lot of people want to use a new spreadsheet or video editor every month they just want to use what works even if its not the best
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  10. in the 70s almost every country that was not super poor or small tried to make their own stuff. but now only a few have the guts to do it.
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  11. i always thought that was very wasteful
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  12.  @akshatprakash871  They should have stopped being a command economy in 1947 .but at least they learned eventually some countries still do this
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  13. the early years of computers were interesting. a lot of things we take for granted now was not seen as normal. i thought 80s computers were strange because there was more than just mac and pc. but in this era it was like every computer was its own thing and you had a lot of unusual designs as people were trying to figure out the best way forward .
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  14. That would have been much better than what we got lol. the Atari 800 was genuinely almost 10 years ahead of the pc.
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  15. Because Bulgaria had a population lower than a big city in America and had an economy that was sabotaged on purpose. and i mean just look at the state of India in this time period pretty much the dark age of that country.
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  16. This is what happens when a company starts thinking they are unstoppable. lets hope this happens to Microsoft and google one day .
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  17. yea true but the iphone seemed quite bad at the time to a lot of people if you remember the era most people wanted physical buttons and most touch screens were bad .we know better now but it really wasn't very obvious at the time
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  18. Vernon Cosslett the 1980s boy genius that tragically died at a young age
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  19. Its a pretty strange era there were a lot of good computer companies in the early 80s that where way better than apple and ibm. like commodore Atari Sinclair ti but they all got crushed and forgotten after the 8 bit era. my guess is that they overestimated the home user market instead of focussing on the office market. in the 80s the average person didn't need a computer it could have been handy and fun for gaming. but it wasn't until the 90s and the rise of the internet that the average person wanted a computer for more than just gaming. i think another advantage ibm had and apple to a lesser extend was that their computers where more expandable and open so other companies could improve the pc. and even the old apple computers had more expansion options than the c64 .and when someone did make a hardware upgrade for the c64 nobody supported it.
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  20. they started off just copying everything from other countries but started getting more creative once they had more experience and access to decent hardware
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  21.  @smling11  Singapore is not socialist.
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  22. Bulgaria could do this but very rich countries like Sweden could not or other poor but high populated countries like Indonesia or Mexico couldn't
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  23. yea true most of the world can't compete because in software you have to be the first to invent something. because once something is popular people aren't going to stop using it unless it becomes obsolete or the new version are ultra glitchy and bad . most of the times America was first because of its business culture. and in the early days it was just because they were richer than most countries .
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  24. I think its because it used the z80 and the z80 didn't evolve much past the 8 bit era so if they wanted to make more powerful msx systems in the 90s they had to move to a different architecture like intel .but that would make it not backwards compatible and you couldn't release a totally new platform anymore after 1987. because it wouldn't get enough 3rd party support. maybe if it used the intel 8088 they could have kept it going with more modern versions but the intel 8088 seemed like a bad choice back then since it was more expensive.
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  25. because even in iran for a long time they were worried about overpopulation
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  26.  @nomadhgnis9425  yea but Linux was barely functional back then .at least dos was more stable and easy to install. and if you know the Japanese mindset they don't care about open source at all .Japanese. companies like to control their products and not let people make modifications .
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  27.  @herberttlbd  It was not very successful and zilogs later cpus flopped and didn't make it far. but they did get past 8 bit
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  28. yea true only in the year 2000 did everyone own a cd player you got a lot of people idealising the past thinking everyone had it as soon as it came out
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  29. why is the most important chip factory in the world over there seems like a dangerous place both because of nature and "politics" .is there just something about Chinese people that makes them better at making things like this compared to other people no matter the circumstances. like you could put 100.000 Chinese people on Antarctica and they would still out compete the rest of the world.
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  30. Balkan people are genius
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  31. did they even know what they were funding ?
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  32. yea while i think ai is not that bad its at least doing some cool things they are taking it too far using it for things its not intended for
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  33. 11:37 ironic because these people were making the same mistakes far left countries like the ussr made.
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  34.  @neilrichardson7454  yea exactly just like Taiwan is china that is why they should put it there so its in Serbia
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  35. Rich ?
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  36. Mmmh i wonder why countries like brazil and many others failed to compete with America ? what did America do differently from other countries ? i don't know maybe we can figure it out with more government subsidies and import taxes and state monopolies.
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  37.  @thebestevertherewas  Yea i am from Belgium and people who speak Dutch prefer to watch stuff in English the few Dutch speaking YouTubers that exist are lame or not very active. but other countries are not like this when i was in Germany nobody could understand English. even in smaller countries like Slovakia they all watch local stuff.
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  38. its probably because everyone as worried about overpopulation until 2020
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  39.  @mirceamuntean6439  yea but they got a lot in common .in the case of Taiwan and mainland china both have crazy amounts of manufacturing .and Singapore too and that is just a city state with a large Chinese population
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  40. Probably not they would just buy everything from other countries .maybe they would just make more simple things
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  41. this was the 1960s so they thought they were just going to be able to put in on Pluto in the year 1980 so cooling isn't an issue anymore but when that didn't happen the project fell apart
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  42. but were will they came from since this affects most countries
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  43.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  no they are all in decline too but it started later on. the only few that have risen recently are Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan .and guess what these countries are the most secular Muslim countries. i think its because of the environment being sparely populated grasslands .most of the world is either densely populated or has a lot of mountains or woods making it seem like there is less space or deserts .the same thing is happening in Mongolia despite being not Muslim .
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  44. i think the first one came out in 1985 it was really big and expensive i guess they had laser disc based systems and other optical discs before that time
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  45. Linux was very bad in the early 90s
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  46. i think its just because japan had a head start compared to most non western countries in the 1970s that were too poor. and their games are just very different usually in a good way most countries make games in the western style and you can't tell were they are from ad they don't even support the language from the country of the developers. like there was a game made in Poland but it only supports English and German. i also noticed Japanese media was more progressive towards video games in the 80s and 90s if you look at American or European media talking about video games at the time at best they viewed it as action figures or board games. and they had no idea what was going on and they usually tried to blame it for bad things and got a lot of bad censorship laws and other regulation passed like banning arcades. even the actual game developers were often teenagers you really had to look hard for people over 20 that played video games or even knew what they were. while Japanese media was more forward thinking and they saw the potential and didn't talk down to gamers. and at companies like Nintendo the teams were small by modern standards but huge by 80s standards you maybe had a team of 10 25 year old guys working on a Mario game while in America it was like one or 2 16 year olds making something during summer vacation. it was pretty much fact that most Japanese games with some exceptions were better eventually the west caught up. but in the last few years something bad is happening in the west again .
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  47.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  The African countries also had strict market controls. a lot of them still do today
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  48. if they keep this up japan and other countries may start to make more popular software
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  49. I often talk about that with my father. my dad usually says i am idealising the past nobody had even seen this stuff during his childhood.
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  50. they should have put it in Kosovo its like the Taiwan of Europe
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