10 Failed Technology Trends of 2005

mikemuch writes "ExtremeTech's Loyd Case muses on ten trends of 2005 that never panned out. He points the finger at analysts like himself for waxing glowy-eyed at technologies like the BTX form factor and the 64-bit version of Windows XP. On DRM and the Sony rootkit fiasco: 'Hint to the music publishers: It's not going to work. There have been easy workarounds to every system that's been tried, and the more stringent the copy protection, the greater the risk of having angry customers who won't buy CDs. I suggest you start investigating new business models, as the old ones ride off into the sunset.'"

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Satellite - XM Radio

[wing03]

Quick poll...

How many folks here are actually subscribing or thinking about subscribing to XM radio?

There's alot of marketing hype in my area in Canada right now.

I have one thing to say:

[MsGeek]

I ***HATE*** earbuds.

Hate. Hate. Hate.

They *hurt*. They fall out of your ears. They focus sound all wrong.

Give me a good set of headphones and nobody gets hurt.

Besides, those pasty white regulation iPod earbuds are an open invite to theft for those so inclined. If I have a big clunky set of headphones attached to anything, be it my Mini Disc player or a future iPod or whatever, it's not obvious what I'm listening to. I might even be some sort of looney wearing them to fend off the evil radiation from the Computer Gangster God Control or whatever. I suspect that my insistence on cans would save my ass and my property.

Death before earbuds. Maybe quite literally.