Tech Fail! Biggest Flops of The Last 10+ Years

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1. May 5, 2012 12:40 AM
   

   TS-56336 said:

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

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2. May 6, 2012 5:21 AM
   Guest said:

   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.

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3. May 7, 2012 5:39 AM
   Guest said:

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

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4. May 7, 2012 9:25 PM
   Guest said:

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

   How many people are still using there Zunes??

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5. May 7, 2012 10:25 PM
   Guest said:

   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!

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6. May 8, 2012 8:52 AM
   

   cookiedude said:

   "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.

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   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.

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7. May 8, 2012 1:42 PM
   Guest said:

   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.

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8. May 11, 2012 4:58 AM
   Guest said:

   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.

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9. May 14, 2012 12:42 PM
   Guest said:

   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.

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10. May 19, 2012 2:16 PM
    Guest said:

    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.

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11. May 19, 2012 5:38 PM
    

    LNCPapa said:

    I believe they are talking about the DivX set top boxes that came out - and they were failures.

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