Eight Biggest Tech Flops Ever 627
cuppm writes "Yahoo! News has an article on the The Eight Biggest Tech Flops Ever.
'What distinguishes a simply bad product from the truly awful? Sometimes it's a dreadful user interface. Other times it's a product that successfully addresses a particularly daunting problem - yet one shared by relatively few people. And often competitive or financial pressure forces new products to market before they're ready - full of bugs and horribly unusable. Still other times, the products arrive too early. Eventually they become a success, but often after the founding company has been ruined.'"
Hey (Score:5, Funny)
Um, like duh! (Score:4, Funny)
Shame on you, yahoo.
Ubiquitous "That 70's show" quote (Score:5, Funny)
Dataplay (Score:4, Funny)
Also, and most people don't know this, but if you run a green marker around the edge of the dataplay disk, the sound quality is even better.
Re:Um, like duh! (Score:3, Funny)
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Hey, where's my PointCast? (Score:1, Funny)
Biggest flops (Score:5, Funny)
Re:MMmmmmm (Score:1, Funny)
If you're so in love with the King's English, you should look into proper capitalization and punctuation. Ass.
Didn't see ICANN on the list either (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Um, like duh! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Lame (Score:5, Funny)
More Tech Flops? (Score:2, Funny)
From Yahoo! Shopping:
- Apple iPod 20GB
- Nikon CoolPix 3100
- Nokia 3650
Odd, I really didn't consider those some of the biggest tech flops ever...
Re:Um, like duh! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Mistake on Clik! Drive (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Um, like duh! (Score:1, Funny)
Challenge it? Hell, I am still hopful that they will do it once.
The Pen Computer (Score:4, Funny)
This was going to be huge! A handheld PC that used a stylus instead of a keyboard. It would read your handwriting; It would communicate telepathicly. It would be bigger than free beer and chicken!
Imagine...doctors would rush out to buy a machine that take their scribbles and convert it into clear word-processor ready text. So what if the software couldn't tell a handwritten prescription of Lysergic Acid Dythelemide from Lysterine and Diet Coke!
Imagine...Restraunts would flock to buy these $3000 plastic boxes for each and every one of their $3.50/hr plus tips waitresses. They would do it because it would be so much more efficient than constantly buying 59 cent order pad booklets once a week.
So here's a hearty cheer to all those people who listened to this insanity, opened their wallets, and showered money on these bozos.
Here's to GO!, Here's to Milliennia!, Here's to Pi Systems!, Here's to IO!, and an especially grand huzzah to Apple, who spent several several hundred millions of dollars in the biggest positive-feedback bullshit loop in the tech industry history!
Re:Also missing ... (Score:5, Funny)
Man, just when I think I've gone over the edge into complete geek, someone like you comes along and describes telnetting into your servers from the middle of Antarctica, and I feel much more normal again
Re:When did this author climb out of diapers? (Score:2, Funny)
Wow, Space shuttles and attack jets are home computing in your world.
I want entry...
Re:People will hate me for this. (Score:2, Funny)
Unfortunately, that's also Apple's pricing strategy.
Re:FAA Traffic control system (Score:2, Funny)
Where's Sega? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Hey (Score:1, Funny)
Re:The Pen Computer (Score:3, Funny)
In exchange for the money they wanted, and monthly fee for their website for a minium of 1 year... you got a pen computer running Windows CE.
I know they spent so much bother and effort trying to say "Oh it's diffrent then a regular PC.... that 16 megs of ram is more then enough to do such and such", but it seemed that even there it was practicaly impossible to sell a free PC without the "giga this and mega that" {Dell reference}.
As far as So what if the software couldn't tell a handwritten prescription of Lysergic Acid Dythelemide from Lysterine and Diet Coke!... I have to say the apple newton was the biggest hit since madlibs. One of the first things I wrote on what was "explore your world". It transformed that to "trust the fungus".
Re:RIAA? (Score:2, Funny)
Seth Finklestein
Long-Time Apple
I'm a bananna!
yahoo DSL (Score:3, Funny)
IBM Deathstar (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Yeah, last century... (Score:1, Funny)
Nope - I can confirm a sighting of a pterod^W^WZip media on sale near Bristol, UK, just a couple of weeks ago.
In fact... hey! What's that slot in the front of my computer?! And... this red cartridge thing I put all my backups on... it says Zip on it! I always thought that was something to do with the compression program, but maybe I was wrong.
Re:Mistake on Clik! Drive (Score:1, Funny)
That'd wipe out several percent of the pr0n collection!
Re:Um, like duh! (Score:2, Funny)