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Don't Believe the Hype: The 21 Biggest Technology Flops
ComputerWorld ^
| 04 April 2007
| David Haskin
Posted on 04/04/2007 10:40:49 AM PDT by ShadowAce
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posted on
04/04/2007 10:40:58 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; ..
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posted on
04/04/2007 10:41:17 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
That was a fun walk down memory lane.
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posted on
04/04/2007 10:45:57 AM PDT
by
randog
(What the...?!)
To: randog
Yeah—there were a few items there that I had forgotten about.
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posted on
04/04/2007 10:48:20 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
I wish I hadn't sunk all my life's savings investing in New Coke :(
/I was about 8, and bought a can....
To: martin_fierro
To: ShadowAce
I was thinking of Betamax...
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posted on
04/04/2007 10:50:32 AM PDT
by
RebelBanker
(May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.)
To: RebelBanker
Betamax was a flop only in marketing.
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posted on
04/04/2007 10:51:29 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
Then the recording industry became concerned that DAT would encourage piracy because it could be used to make near-perfect digital copies of recorded music. The industry convinced Congress to pass the Audio Home Recording Act in 1992, which required strong -- some might say Draconian -- copy protection for DAT.
This is actually an example of content providers crippling a technology to the point where consumers no longer find it worthwhile. We'll never know whether DAT on it's own merits would have been a flop.
To: randog
I’d argue that speech recognition was a flop. It depends on what the intended purpose was vs the application we have now. Back in 1991 I worked for a 3rd Party Technical services company. The major vendor of Electronic Pre-Press Systems, ATEX had a problem with its keyboards and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. One of the remedies was Dragon Dictate which we interfaced with the ATEX Operating system. Dragon Dictate went through some improvements in its recognition of utterances, especially those in say....Arabic. It is now owned by Nuance. The new product is DragonNet and is the backbone for Carnivore and Echelon.
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posted on
04/04/2007 10:54:14 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: ShadowAce
Current TV will be on that heap in a year or so!
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posted on
04/04/2007 10:55:15 AM PDT
by
Holicheese
(I love shrimp and grits.)
To: ShadowAce
I have VR glasses, a matchbox sized bluetooth laser projection keyboard, and an OQO pocket computer with WiFi. I go to an internet cafe, put on the glasses boot the computer (uses full up version of Xp Pro) and light up the laser keyboard, wham - surfing and posting on the web with a fullup computer on a 70” screen I can fit in my pocket.
How cool is that. :-)
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posted on
04/04/2007 10:55:24 AM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior and Founding Member of Darwin Central)
To: Holicheese
Yup. Why I just bought a Pioneer 50” HD plasma. :-)
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posted on
04/04/2007 10:55:59 AM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior and Founding Member of Darwin Central)
To: ShadowAce
Flooz's commercials featuring Whoopi Goldberg received the most attention. Floozy.
To: ShadowAce
DAT survived a while for professional recording applications Like Betamax, this is still around in the professional world because it is simply a superior product. Back when I worked in radio, we did everything on DAT or Minidisc.
But I liked the Apple Newton. Some of those are still on eBay, but they sure do go for way more than they are worth.
To: ShadowAce
I will throw in the Apple IIGS.
A almost bought one of those boondoggles. Fortunately, they were too expensive and I got an Amiga 500 instead.
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posted on
04/04/2007 10:57:13 AM PDT
by
Smogger
(It's the WOT Stupid)
To: martin_fierro
Oh, my.
How ... distasteful.
To: ShadowAce
Betamax was a flop only in marketing. Well it lost the "format war" to VHS, so people stopped making Beta tapes or players. I suppose you could argue that it was not really a flop, but was simply displaced by a similar product. I still remember 8-tracks, which were moderately successful for a while ;-)
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posted on
04/04/2007 10:57:28 AM PDT
by
RebelBanker
(May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.)
To: ShadowAce
I’m thinking Windows Vista may join Lisa and NeXT as a flop that will be replaced by something similar but not blighted by initial ridicule. Economic pressure seems to have compelled MS to release Vista a couple of years before it is ready.
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posted on
04/04/2007 10:58:02 AM PDT
by
js1138
(The absolute seriousness of someone who is terminally deluded.)
To: ShadowAce
The Segway was the biggest flop.
“IT” will never come close to living up to all the hype.
“IT” will not “change the way cities are designed”.
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posted on
04/04/2007 10:58:59 AM PDT
by
ryan71
(You can hear it on the coconut telegraph...)
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