As we wrap up 2010, it’s a good time to look back. This was a good year for consumer technology, introducing everything from advanced Smartphone to cheap e-readers to bold new set-top boxes. And let’s not forget the rise of the tablet with the introduction of the Apple iPad. But you can’t really appreciate the highs without remembering the lows, right? And this year was filled with botched experiments and bad ideas. Here are the 5 big failures in 2010.
Apple Ping – Business Insider lists Ping among the biggest flops in tech for 2010. The reason for this listing is that Ping was launched with a great deal of publicity, but it still hasn’t gained much of a foothold in the hearts and minds of its users. Ping is supposed to allow you to track your favorite artists and genres and keep up-to-date with their mishaps. Recommendations barely relate to your chosen genres except they were in the same decade. Ping is in infancy, and it shows! Ping was spawned to sell music, but the quality of the product just annoys users.
Microsoft Kin- Microsoft’s attempt to be hip and cool in mobile is a bust. The company has decided to stop introducing new Kin-branded phones and will scrap the device’s European launch. The devices, called Kin One and Kin Two, were built with social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter at their core. Manufactured by Sharp for Microsoft, and available exclusively on Verizon Wireless, the phones were targeted at teens and social networking addicts. But, from the start, Kin devices seemed doomed. The phones got tepid reviews and were plagued by reports of extremely poor sales. Google Buzz & Wave – Google’s foray into the social networking/micro blogging sphere backfired when people found themselves reconnected with ex-lovers and old coworkers due to an “automatic follow” algorithm. Gmail users weren’t too keen on having their most-contacted lists aired to the public, and the Buzz fiasco ultimately ended in a class-action settlement. Google Wave was introduced as an alternative to e-mail, instant messaging and file-sharing site and combines the best of each in one place. Google steadily and slowly added more features in wave, but it failed to meet user’s expectation.
Google Nexus One – Tech watchers had high hopes for Google’s own Android Smartphone, whose contract-free online-sales model was supposed to stick it to wireless carriers. Rated as one of the best phones on the market, second only to iPhone according to some, the Google Phone, the own-brand Nexus One has been officially discontinued in the US. Just one snag: Google relies on those wireless providers to make Android a success in the first place. When Sprint and Verizon lost interest in carrying the Nexus One, so did Google, and the revolution died.
Google Nexus One – Tech watchers had high hopes for Google’s own Android Smartphone, whose contract-free online-sales model was supposed to stick it to wireless carriers. Rated as one of the best phones on the market, second only to iPhone according to some, the Google Phone, the own-brand Nexus One has been officially discontinued in the US. Just one snag: Google relies on those wireless providers to make Android a success in the first place. When Sprint and Verizon lost interest in carrying the Nexus One, so did Google, and the revolution died.
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