Tech Fail! Biggest Flops of The Last 10+ Years

i am truly surprise to see playbooks on the list, i have one and love it. it's a lot cheaper than the ipad, has a large number of apps, works great, has a huge battery life, and works like a dream. i can't understand why it's called a failure, maybe because of low sales or lack of marketing?

"Studios" including Sony's own ones. Handy thing to have for the battle
As far as "bluray being better", it may have had higher capacity (still get extra features on 2nd disks) but I haven't seen that much use of it. From my research back in the day I seem to remember the encoding or something of HD-DVD being better than Bluray.

http://www.hometheaterblog.com/hometheater/2006/06/blu-ray-vs-hd-dvd-fact-vs-fiction/

Every Blackberry os7 device ever made!

I agree my dad has one and its awesome, been using android tablets for a while, and I can't see why they're a failure. They offer a much better experience for really low cost, obviously depends on what you buy and how much you spend.

Well said, I think android tablets are really good, and I actually use them. I have used both iOS and Android devices. Windows Phone 7 is next on the list . I actually think ipod touches are failures coz the button breaks after a few months.. :|

The Android Tablets should definately not be on that list yet. If they end up to be phased out like hd-dvd then maybe but definately now is too early to say they failed.

I had an internal & external zip drive. Never had an issue
with either one.
I think most of the problems were people leaving disks in the zip drive, powering
them off and the heads were not retracted. I saw & heard a lot of COD's from those
but mine never was one of them. I still have the disks & drives.

The Sega Dreamcast was one of my favorite systems.
Which is saying a lot for me, I have owned them all.

Ready to Rumble Boxing, Hydro Thunder, Soul Calibur, Crazy Taxi, Sonic Adventure, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Powerstone, Virtual ON, Shemnue, etc etc.

Some of my favorite gaming experiences of all time.
The issue with the Dreamcast was the timing of its release.

Newer consoles packing/bringing 3D gaming goodness made the Dreamcast's hardware obsolete within a year but that system will always hold a special place in my heart.

You forgot to add Apple's Ping and Mobileme... those were both colossal failures.

Just as LNCPapa stated, I to own several HD-DVD players, one in my master bedroom and one in my living room. I personally love the things, I liked them back when they were first released. I also made the choice to stay loyal to the HD-DVD format, even in the face of the mighty Blu-Ray. Personally speaking, I have several friends that only use Blu-Ray, I've watched a lot of movies on that format and see very little difference, if any between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. And just like LNCPapa said, I to was buying up the heavily discounted HD-DVD movies when they were on their way out. I took my HD-DVD video library from around 50 disks at the peak of success for HD-DVD to just above 200 titles when it was on it's way out. I especially liked the $1.00 bins at Fry's, I was doing a power grab for those suckers. So for the foreseeable future, I won't be jumping on the Blu-Ray bandwagon anytime soon! For I even have have a spare HD-DVD player tucked away as a back up for if one of my primary's goes down, still in it's box, factory sealed, never been opened.

And as far as the other stuff on that "fail" list, some can be debated, but for the most part I agree with the list.

Divx was another great tech flop.

the dreamcast shouldn't be on this list, it was nowhere near as big of a flop as most everything else on here, saying it should be in a list of failures with the likes of Windows ME, Vista, Google's attempts at a social network, etc. is ridiculous

I think you forgot some Apple stuff: Mobileme, Ping. Vista wasn't so much a failure. It did pretty well in the marketplace until it was replaced with 7, which is natural. I'd also say that Android tablets are far from a failure. You can go into any store and find a decent selection of Android powered tablets. Kindle? Nook? Yea, Android. It seems like they are still in the game. It's like calling OSX Lion a failure now when it's still running strong and in production with no sign of failure (wait - Apple product, sorry they aren't allowed to fail, right?).

Tablet PC's are still widely used in the medical field. Sure, they didn't strike it big with consumers, but a lot of products don't. XBox isn't doing well in businesses, but it's far from a failure.

I do agree with a lot on the list, there are just some that are ... awkward and make the author look a bit Apple biased (Android over iOS, "Vista failure", etc.). I own an iPad and an Android and like the iPad better, but the Android is no slacker or a failure. It's a powerful machine that gives me full control. The iPad is just faster and has beefier specs so I use that mostly.

I would still be using MySpace if they didn't change it!
Likewise, Facebook is changing into a monster I don't like. I no longer visit my friends pages with the new "timeline". And once its forced onto me (sometime soon I bet) I will deactivate my account.

I miss my Dreamcast

HD-DVD was a superior format to BD, the reason it failed was cause Sony basically forced it on all the studios to be used via money and manipulation.

Dreamcast failed due to its own popularity, the copy protection got cracked, and the flux of copied games killed the game production market.

Windows Vista, I don't know what the fail is, I never had a problem running Vista, the blame should be placed on the computer manufactures like HP, Dell that sold underpowered PC's that had no business running VIsta. I never ran Windows XP, I went from Windows 2000 (which blows away XP) to Vista to Win7.

How about the Apple Newton, Lisa, Cube, Mac TV, Appleworks, Slideshow, U2 iPod...

I'm sorry, but I have to ask...is it really fair to be putting Android tablets on this list? I think it's still too early in the game for them to be listed here. I agree with the touchpad and playbook, but Android tablets as a whole? I'm going to have to disagree with that one...for now, at least.

Wrong: Kindle Fire has been a success and has made a dent in iPad sales.

CEO Cook says differently: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/25/cook_on_tablets/
You know it is true when they say it hasn't. Why even mention the multi-million selling Fire????

I am obviously weird, because I like 3 products on this list.

Windows ME: great for consumer use on older PC's

HD-DVD: I bought this right as it was obvious it was going to be the loser in the format war, and got a whole bunch of great quality movies for under $5

PSP-Go: Just got this last Christmas and love it. I only wanted 2 games and mostly use it to watch movies which look awesome.