The Decade's 25 Biggest Tech Flops
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Just because they failed doesn't make all of them flops. A lot of those things were precursors to things we have today.
(Interesting that Sony is responsible for so many things on there.)
(Interesting that Sony is responsible for so many things on there.)
shadow_dragon
is ironing his panties!
Number 1 biggest technological flop of the 21st century?
Having to click "Next" 25 times to see a tiny .jpeg on the internet...
Having to click "Next" 25 times to see a tiny .jpeg on the internet...
^ Ha, true. So annooooying.
They haven't heard of scrolling pages yet.
The article reminded me on the Commodore/ Amiga CDTV that I bought back then. It was basically a Amiga 500 with a CD ROM drive.
They haven't heard of scrolling pages yet.
The article reminded me on the Commodore/ Amiga CDTV that I bought back then. It was basically a Amiga 500 with a CD ROM drive.
That's just and ad-system coupled with greed
edit: I think I never bought tech that flopped. I'm a cautious and informed consumer... and at launch of the Dreamcast I didn't have the cash to make a mistake
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Does anyone know exactly why DVD-Audio failed to take off?
Microsoft Smart Display I am disappointed didn't turn out good. Given enough time, and newer technology, that thing could have been really good. I think if it was released today, it would have owned.
I also don't really agree with the UMD one. The PSP has been a success, and there are a lot of games on the system, and all of them are in UMD format. However it appears Sony doesn't agree because future PSP games will be downloadable, but I think that is because of the increase in very cheap memory card storage, and the sizes they are coming in.
Microsoft Smart Display I am disappointed didn't turn out good. Given enough time, and newer technology, that thing could have been really good. I think if it was released today, it would have owned.
I also don't really agree with the UMD one. The PSP has been a success, and there are a lot of games on the system, and all of them are in UMD format. However it appears Sony doesn't agree because future PSP games will be downloadable, but I think that is because of the increase in very cheap memory card storage, and the sizes they are coming in.
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for the same reason people listen to ACC quality tracks they pay for on iTunes...they can't tell the difference...
I too like Kantham. Anyways, to the topic at hand. I bought the Dreamcast on the cheap when we found some that were still in the warehouse when I was doing part-time work at Toys R Us some 7-8 yrs ago. I think I picked it up for $75 and it had 2 games. I've said it many times and I'll say it again, I think MS made a deal with Sega to discontinue the Dreamcast in the US in order to make room for the Xbox. See, on the right side there's this logo on the DC. It reads "Windows CE". Sega's system was more than able to contend with the Xbox, and was doing so without a hard drive. The tradeoff was that Sega got some good exclusives coming to Xbox when it launched including the now defunct Sega football franchise and many other titles that did not appear on PS2 for quite some time. Plus Peter Moore was one of the guys behind the DC and he found himself working for MS at a later time leading up to the 360's launch. Coincidence? I doubt it.
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That. I'm not clicking through that many pages for some stupid "Top Whatever" list.
shadow_dragon
is ironing his panties!
I managed to get halfway only to find one of them had two parts because it involved cleavage... Meh!
Commodore had some pretty bad flops. The CD32 didn't do so great either, since most of its games were just ports of Amiga games with horrible FMV intros stuck on the front. Also, anyone remember the C64-based games console? Thought not.
Haha, I totally saw the Foleo being featured on that list. Palm surely shot itself in the foot with that fiasco.