Author Topic: Time Magazines 10 Biggest Tech Failures of the last decade (Read 3663 times)

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

Palm
9) Iridium
10) Segway

Time

bloodline · « **Reply #1 on:** May 15, 2009, 06:55:09 PM »

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

GadgetMaster · « **Reply #2 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.

Speelgoedmannetje · « **Reply #3 on:** May 17, 2009, 02:21:12 PM »

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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.

bloodline · « **Reply #4 on:** May 18, 2009, 08:55:56 PM »

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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...

B00tDisk · « **Reply #5 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?

Wolfe · « **Reply #6 on:** May 18, 2009, 09:19:50 PM »

No, Those are all Mac's . . .