Tech Fail! Biggest Flops of The Last 10+ Years

[m4a4]

"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.

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.

 

[TS-56336]

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

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Guest]

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

 

[Guest]

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

How many people are still using there Zunes??

 

[Guest]

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!

 

[cookiedude]

"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/

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.

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[LNCPapa]

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

 

[Guest]

I'd also include Nokia N9. Such a good piece of hardware and the os is very decent.

 

[Guest]

Article Fail. Jumped the gun on Android tablets... they now hold 60% market share (quite a bit more if you include Chinese and Indian white label tablets)

 

[Guest]

I'm sorry, remind how the nexus 7 was a failure? I seem to have forgotten about it's massive failure that happened..... apparently.

To say android tablets are failures is apple zealotry and idiocy par excellence

 

[Guest]

...And "then" I read how old the article is...

"Date reading fail"

Still, as the above commenter says, "prediction fail"

 

[deemon]

Still using Vista Ultimate 64bit. Don't understand why you call it flop. 7 could have been OK replacement but too much hassle to reinstall everything... and on top of that my Vista worked always perfectly - no problems whatsoever to this day. 8 and 8.1 was/is/has_been complete flop. Looking forward to 10 now.

 

[DanUK]

Still using Vista Ultimate 64bit. Don't understand why you call it flop. 7 could have been OK replacement but too much hassle to reinstall everything... and on top of that my Vista worked always perfectly - no problems whatsoever to this day. 8 and 8.1 was/is/has_been complete flop. Looking forward to 10 now.

It was a flop because it was poorly recieved by users and critics, and it's adoption rate was relatively low. Heck, there's a whole wikipedia page dedicated to peoples criticisms of it.