Tech Fail! Biggest Flops of The Last 10+ Years

Your guys forgot Real Player. Everyone was using their software, and then it all went bad...

>> Rofl, two out of ten fails are OS's of MS. And then you call windows a superior OS to linux!

>>ps: sorry for this out of topic comment but i couldn't resist to the recent ubuntu review's comments!

'buntu enthusiast myself, but Linux (700+ variants) is IMHO the biggest flop, excluding Android in the last 12 months.

Apple, M$ & Hitler agree with me. Not technology, not mass-market appeal - but MARKETING, both research, surveys & responding to surveys. ex-director of many companies, so I know that success depends on the stupidity of our market sector. Linux: no marketing at all. Just selfish, self-centered tech heads.

I agree on anything except the last one.
The Blackberry Playbook is exceptional, the android tablets are...decent but certainly not a tech fail and the Touchpad is very usable by some users who dual boots webos and android. get your facts straight before writing an article

It seems by your standards If an item doesn't sell as many units as an Apple product its a failure.
Take the Playbook it sold over 1 million, has a 4g version coming out soon and also a Playbook 2 in the works. Is it as big a seller as Ipad ? No of course not but if its still being sold and updates in the works then its not a failure.

not really agree with that list, as many have mentionned.
Tablet Pc are still selling, why a big flop ?

Love my TouchPad. I use it to browse the web, check my email on the road, read books and occasionally stream video from my home server. Yeah, it had a bad launch and HP certainly made some big missteps with it. But honestly, if you have half a brain and say $25 bucks you can get some great apps on WebOS to make up for what they left out and turn it into a very capable tablet. It's no iPad, but its still a nice little platform at a fraction of the cost of its pricier competitors, with plenty of functionality after a little tweaking. Despite its launch issues, I think its scale of failure is debatable. I suppose it all depends on what you had hoped to do with it. So far, its met all my needs and wants quite well.

Dreamcast was a big, big shame. It was a good console and deserved a few more years.

Although as reported by the linked site, HD-DVDs used dual layer from the start. Blurays didn't (not sure if they are available now).
Dual layer HD-DVD has more capacity than single layer Bluray. But really, neither was particularly technically superior to the other.

Wow! I can't believe how badly, as a journalist, you missed the boat on this one. You had me up until your 10th item on the list. I can't believe your claim your of Android tables and the PlayBook being failures simply because they haven't taken enough market share from Apple. Really? 35% isn't enough? What. Would be enough for you? Because. That's pretty significant in my book and since the numbers for Android and PlayBook (now that they have a new leader) seem to be increasing rather than decreasing, I really would have chosen something else to round off the list.

HD DVD was slightly superior to Blu-ray when it first came out because they had finalized it specs before release unlike Blu-ray. Blu-ray went through 3 different profiles before it matched the abilities HD DVD had right from the start. This meant that depending on which Blu-ray player you bought, you may or may not be able to view certain content or special features. Also the initial Blu-ray discs still used MPEG2 compression which required a lot of disc space which caused some early movie releases to look like crap.

"Android Tablets, HP TouchPad, Blackberry Playbook - Until they are able to make a dent on iPad's market share"

If failure to make a dent in market share is criteria for making the list, then Apple Computers should be on the list.

I use Vista and I disagree with this list.

Why? 7 removed classic features while Vista still had them. Any 'old dog' had a massive problem switching to 7, which includes practically every one of my customers that I've had a new PC bought for.

But yeah, after all the patches, there's no reason why people should still ride the 'I hate Vista' bandwagon, as it's highly ignorant.

Oh and, that classic shell program fixes a lot of the 'no classic' issues with 7, but there's still a bunch of other things that infuriate me about it.

I cannot believe these goons are still trying to paint the Dreamcast as a failure. The Jaguar was a failure. The Virtual Boy was a failure. The Dreamcast was far from being a failure. It had the largest fighting game collection, not to mention games like Shennmue, PowerStone, and lets not forget the last "Good" as in worth a damn NFL licenesed game. NFL2K series. It failed because of fanboyism. A popularity contest.

BTW your logo almost looks like the Sega Saturn Logo. =P

This sir is a win, but not even someone like me (who hates apple) can fully agree with this. Everyone vs apple for tablets, then apple vs everyone for computers. I wouldn't call non-apple tablets a failure, but I understand what the author is trying to get at (even with how short-sighted it is).

Anyways, I have issues with Vista being on the list, since it did quite well and got "better" after the first service patch... not like it annoyed me before.

At least Friendster made history unlike MySpace. Not to mention I never registered to Friendster until the a true social-network came out, surreptitiously.

AMD's whole strategy of "Moar Cores" with the Bulldozer "FX" chips should be somewhere up the top. Considering they where supposed to be AMD's big comeback chips after years of mediocrity with the Phenom 1&2 lines yet the per core performance went backward to about the per core performance of the failed phenom 1 chips they had released some 4 years previously. I'd say thats about as spectacular a tech fail as any of the ones that made the list if not more so.

I wonder how the "war on used games" with the next generation of consoles is gonna pan out.

Yeah.. Android Tablets made the list, and I use mine every day.

How many people are still using there Zunes??