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Title: Time Magazines 10 Biggest Tech Failures of the last decade
Post by: persia on May 15, 2009, 04:13:56 PM

1) Microsoft Vista
2) Gateway
3) HD DVD
4) Vonage
5) YouTube
6) Sirius XM
7) Microsoft Zune
8) Palm
9) Iridium
10) Segway


Time (http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1898610,00.html)

Title: Re: Time Magazines 10 Biggest Tech Failures of the last decade
Post by: bloodline on May 15, 2009, 06:55:09 PM

Palm and YouTube? Well, yeah palm I can see... But YouTube?

Title: Re: Time Magazines 10 Biggest Tech Failures of the last decade
Post by: GadgetMaster on May 15, 2009, 11:30:01 PM

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bloodline wrote:
Palm and YouTube? Well, yeah palm I can see... But YouTube?

I think Google paid too much for it. It was a failure from a business point of view rather than a tech or popularity POV.

Title: Time Magazines 10 Biggest Tech Failures of the last decade
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on May 17, 2009, 02:21:12 PM

Quote from: bloodline;454322

Palm and YouTube? Well, yeah palm I can see... But YouTube?

I really liked my palm m100, extremely useable/useful thingy, really well thought out. I'd still use it if it wouldn't have been broken.

Title: Time Magazines 10 Biggest Tech Failures of the last decade
Post by: bloodline on May 18, 2009, 08:55:56 PM

Quote from: GadgetMaster;454379

I think Google paid too much for it. It was a failure from a business point of view rather than a tech or popularity POV.

Exactly, YouTube was/is not a failure of technology... just business...

Title: Time Magazines 10 Biggest Tech Failures of the last decade
Post by: B00tDisk on May 18, 2009, 09:14:23 PM

That photo that heads the article - is that a stack of A1000's that guy is standing in front of, topped by a mid 90's Mac?

Title: Time Magazines 10 Biggest Tech Failures of the last decade
Post by: Wolfe on May 18, 2009, 09:19:50 PM

No, Those are all Mac's . . .