Eight Biggest Tech Flops Ever

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.'"

Comments

Hey

[xmuskrat]

I didn't see Slashdot on there...

Um, like duh!

[jrockway]

Windows! Why isn't Windows on there? What other operating system almost brings down the Internet every month because it's hosting 129873 viruses? Bob didn't do that, and it made the list.

Shame on you, yahoo. :) Hey that's catchy.

Re:Um, like duh!

[xmuskrat]

What other operating system almost brings down the Internet every month because it's hosting 129873 viruses?

I thought Windows *was* the virus...

Re:Um, like duh!

[NoOneInParticular]

No Way! Don't you know that the difference between a virus and MS-Window is that a virus is tightly coded, does what it is intended to do, and does not break down under load?

Ubiquitous "That 70's show" quote

[bigattichouse]

During the war they promised me there'd be flying cars, where's my flying car? --Red

Dataplay

[Anonymous Coward]

I still use Dataplay. The sound quality on a dataplay disk is much higher than that of a CD.

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.

Biggest flops

[mooredav]

The biggest FLOPS can be found here.

Didn't see ICANN on the list either

[rs79]

Oh yeah, I forgot. They aren't technical.

Re:Lame

[jayhawk88]

What you failed to notice is that the article was written by Jim Louderback. This should explain everything.

Re:Mistake on Clik! Drive

[Rosyna]

Yeah, can you imagine loosing 40 gigs of data instead of the usual 40 megs? ;)

Re:Also missing ...

[freeweed]

I highly recomended Iridium if you spend any time in the wilderness. With the serial calble and a old Psion Revo - I can telnet to any of my servers from anywhere and the whole package is under three pounds.

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 :)