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The 57 Lamest Tech Moments of 2010
harrymcc writes "When it comes strange blunders, failed dreams, pointless legal wrangling, and other embarrassments, the technology industry had an uncommonly busy 2010. I compiled a list of the most notable examples--including the lost iPhone prototype, the short life of Microsoft's Kin, the end of Google Wave, the McAfee security meltdown, a depressingly long list of lawsuits over mobile patents, and much more."
Endless Top ### lists with no real substance writen by writers who can neither write nor hold their own when it comes down to bare metal technology.
Wake me up in January.
Google Wave isn't dead. It just changed its name to Apache Wave.
Thank you HTC for Alpha testing the HTC EVO on the general public! So many of us were left with a phone that you have to charge every 3 hours, but the charging ports broke within the first few uses!
HTC says their warrantys don't cover physical damage, what the hell good is it?
Sprint says, pay me a hundred bucks for a refurb fool! So you do, and a week later; rinse and repeat!
It was different when it was software, but hardware being beta tested on the public and they eat the cost!? I'm left with only one thing to say: W T F
Some poor /. user might get an iPad from his or her grandmother...and knowing the sentiment around here, that's bound to be the lamest tech moment of 2010 for that poor soul!
(Lame attempt at humor, not trying to troll...)
Why a list of 57? Did you just keep brainstorming lame moments until you couldn't come up with any more? Or is there some significance to choosing to record 57 specifically.
No mention of Gizmodo's password breach?
bah.
My two lamest of 2010, along with 'Duke Nukem Forever (to be Vaporware)'
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
Is it?
I use irony whenever I can, but my shirts are still wrinkled...
you've bought into eternal recurrence, and the other 2010's were less busy?
I think we all know what's happening. The technology industry is no longer about technology, it's about bling, brother,
More seriously, we've come full circle with mainframe/cloud and software on phones (javaME)/iPhones. Ideas that don't fly now may fly again in the future but with a different name. I suspect portals will become a lot more important again. A social portal maybe?
Either way, I think the potential value for the web for the general public and our children will be a lot less than it is today. It will be 'dumbed down' and you will have to pay per page.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9WeTv4Q-QY
I know it should not even register a blip in the grand scheme of business'ey things. But the whole application of technology on something so uber-stupid shoud be listed among some of the dumbest tech things seen in 2010... me thinks.
...that way the article could have included itself as number one. Another meandering, poorly written summary of the year.
If you're going to choose an arbitrary number to attach to an end of year list, keep it to ten and focus on the writing. Seriously, 57? I'm reminded of the Jargon File comment about 17 being the "least random number". This is just a blatant excuse to generate ads by breaking up an article; I'm surprised it isn't 57 pages long, in slide show form.
I think we all know what's happening. The technology industry is no longer about technology, it's about bling, brother,
More seriously, we've come full circle with mainframe/cloud and software on phones (javaME)/iPhones. Ideas that don't fly now may fly again in the future but with a different name. I suspect portals will become a lot more important again. A social portal maybe?
Either way, I think the potential value for the web for the general public and our children will be a lot less than it is today. It will be 'dumbed down' and you will have to pay per page.
"Tech" is a mature business like every other. The unwashed masses have taken over what the geeks formerly curated.
Time for the geeks to go find the next big thing to concern their supposedly superior intellect with.
Although Polaroid naming Lady Gaga as Creative Director is pretty strange.
Either that or it is one of those 1 in a million oddly brilliant ideas.
Time will tell..
Mark deserves a lot of credit for building one of the worlds largest software companies. But perhaps he is hamming it up now. I just saw him inducted int he California Hall of Fame on Entertainment Tonight. And a trip to China(*), Oprah, Man of the Year, and so on.
(*) A trip will help his Chinese-language studies, a non-trivial hobby with all he has to do.
No one told me this would be about the lunacy of the Space Age delusions! Oh where do we start!?? Space colonies? Moon colonies? Mining asteroids? Space-based solar power? Oh where to start!!!
What kind of dumb ass converts someone's private email account into a social networking site, letting strangers in their address book see what they do on the web.....without notice, without permission AND expects that people will like it?
Every fucking example in TFS was some type of consumer product. And it's like this is all Slashdot discusses lately. It's all Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, games, mobile, government hysteria, or joke related crap. What the fuck happened to actual tech?
Goddamn... there's this palpable feel that this site's submitters & editors have all aged, lost their curiosity and/or had kids -- and their chief occupation is browsing Slashdot all day long in absentminded retirement.
Not read TFA but wonder whether these are there:
Aleks Krotoski
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/mar/21/austin-heap-haystack-iran Gregg Kiezer
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/21/2329249/Windows-7-Memory-Usage-Critic-Outed-As-Fraud
Facebook, the movie. I'd rather watch paint dry than see a movie about some wealthy kid making money by doing nothing of value. It could have just as well been a movie about the Kardashians, except he isn't nearly as interesting to look at.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Apple has promised that the white iPhone will come with a free copy of the mobile edition of Duke Nukem Forever.
MS only gave the Kin about 6 weeks on the market before pulling the plug. WTF? It was actually a pretty good idea and properly pushed and priced it could have taken over the high-school phone market.
I liked the form factor as well. I wouldn't mind having a phone with that form factor, minus all the social-networking gew-gaws.
Naming Google Wave, and much of its associated development, after the creations of Joss Whedon was just asking for cancellation.
He's the TV equivalent of the RMS Titanic.
Probably a good methodology to follow if you want a lot of depressive, angry 16 year old girls to take up your product, but not if you want wider success.
For me the biggest lame tech event of 2010 was the feeble response of competitors to the iPad.
When the iPad was released, there were stories about how there were going to be tens and tens of competitors released shortly. Prototypes were shown at various shows. Lots of talk and hype.
Overall result: nothing. Apple ran away with the tablet market, totally uncontested.
The lack of a new smartphone by Nokia and the lateness of Meego has to be right up there too.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall in some boardrooms these days.
...for having a record 19 items blocked by NoScript.
Surprisingly, "The Social Network" was actually a good movie because of the human drama that it is intertwined into the story. Its not about how a wealthy kid makes even more money but how and possibly why he did it. Whether or not the events actually took place as depicted in this movie is up for debate but it is a hell of a drama that is well made and very entertaining. I won't be surprised if some it gets Oscars for at least the screenplay if not more.
They wanted to serve it with ketchup.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Can I be seeing this? A down-mod on the Parrot Sketch?!
:(
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Mine came with a cover for the screen to prevent scratching, just like palm pilots and probably even Newtons some years ago.
I've noticed with these companies that even when you get the BBB involved, nothing becomes of it.
I've read various articles about the BBB loosing it's and/or has lost its legitimacy?
I'm left with only questions:
1) Where is the consumer to turn? Who sticks up for the working man that spends his/her hard earned cash on these products?
2) What the hell happened to accountability!? If no one has the consumers back, what is the consumer to do when they get screwed?
3) Is their something that we as people can do? I'd be willing to fork out some of my own money to start some sort of organization that can defend people against these corporations. I'm sure their are more people out their that feel the same way!
I'm serious, let me know! I'm actually willing to do something about it!