i love zeebo

The Zeebo was a Brazilian game console released in 2009 as if to say, "Hey, what if we make a game console for poor communities?" (With good intentions). Qualcomm and Tectoy created this strange 3G device that was slow to receive games when everything else migrated to HD. It had good specs (okay, a 528 MHz chip and 1 GB of storage), ran low-quality versions of FIFA and Resident Evil, and thought school apps might sell it. But Brazilian kids simply said "no" and stuck with cheap pirated PS2 games. The plan for the Zeebo was, "What if we beat piracy... by doing worse things than piracy?" It didn't work. By 2011, it was just a lost toy of the 2000s, like the N-Gage and Virtual Boy. In 2024, someone tried to bring the Zeebo back with a new portable PC called the Zeenix. But what was the shock? The new CEO's old, nasty tweets were published a week before the launch. Then came the online uproar, many resigned, and the laptop flopped as soon as it was released.