Started in the 90s was wildly successful at selling home computers to the UK public. However the company went into administration in 2002 due to the inability to sell anymore computers because well… No one needed a new computer. (Capitalism is an efficient system)
I remember playing age of empires on one of these things.
I sort of wonder why the Dells and HPs of the world outlasted the second-tier manufacturers like Tiny.
They seem to do a lot more custom engineering (custom cases, bespoke mainboards and PSUs, weird designs to skimp on cooling or power delivery), but even at the “we’re ordering an entire shipping container of boards” level is that really cheaper overall than just taking an off-the-shelf mainboard or case and outting your own sticker on it?
I think it was largely that Dell and HP could enter the business market by selling units cheaper in bulk where Tiny only ever really existed in home computing. Most Tiny PC’s were good for checking email and installing AOL bloatware up until the end of XP where vista and win 7 pushed people to buy new devices. By then it was too late for Tiny and Dell/HP had sold laptops and desktops to basically every school and business in the country even unseating IBMs dominance.
Its actually quite hard to find much info about Tiny online. The most i can find in a writeup is that “sales dropped” and that was about it.