Tech Fail! Biggest Flops of The Last 10+ Years

Google doesn't delay the updates! They just create the Android operating system. It's up to the carriers (VZW, Sprint, AT&T.....) as well as the hard ware manufactures (Motorola, Samsung, HTC......) to get Android suited to their specific hardware and push an OTA update!

I didn't mean that blu-ray won because it was better (though having read back what I wrote I can see why people think that!), I just meant that the superior format was the victor in this instance. The point I was trying to make regarding capacity was that the greater potential capacity of Blu-Ray discs was the only real hardware difference between the 2. Unlike Betamax Vs VHS, the gap between formats was marginal.

Regarding the encoding used, I don't see this as being relevant to which format was "superior" as both are capable of utilising whatever file type you care to throw at them, there was no hardware limitation preventing the use of one over another on either format.

Blu-ray won the format war against HD-DVD for the same reason VHS won over Betamax for the consumer - it was the standard adopted by the Porn industry.

Having used Win 8 consumer preview, it's a different way of thinking and working but I think that overall it hasa lot of potential. You can also ignore the Metro interface for the most part and live on the desktop.

I actually like it so far.

It's a bit pre-mature to even say Android smartphones have been successful. According to recent data Samsung and Apple are the only manufacturers actually making money on their smartphones. If that continues to be the trend who knows what will happen.

Divx was not failure. It got a huge of support from software and consumer devices on his days. But as resolutions grew and increased processing power was becoming the norm it was outclassed by never codecs. Similar thing is for MP3 format it was great but now is displaced by lossless, multichannel codecs.
It's evolution baby.