TIME magazine Lists the Segway as "Top Ten worst Tech failures..."

[Greg Peshek]

Originally Posted by big1boom

Well... seeing as the rest of the 10 biggest tech failures are
Windows Vista
Gateway
HD DVD
Vonage
YouTube
Sirius XM
Microsoft Zune
Palm
Iridium
Segway

Last I checked, Vista is commonplace, Gateway sells lots of computers (I have one), Vonage has enough money to advertise, YouTube is everywhere, Sirius XM is installed in cars, my roommate has a Zune, a few people have Palm's..

Not to try to be argumentative here, but as was pointed out earlier the common denominator here seems to be the overhyping of all these products. -Vista was supposed to be the next revolutionary operating system, when it was just a bloated XP.

-The Zune was going to beat out Apple and the iPod for the MP3 market.. it just ended up like most other non-brand name MP3 players.

-While Gateway does have a share of the computer market.. it's nowhere near the powers that Dell, HP (Compaq since they are one in the same), and Apple are in the market of personal computers.

-Youtube was great when it came out, there were unlimited possibilities, now what I think separated it from 2006 as a great invention to now is the buyout by Google. It was expected that Google with its infinite resources would revamp YouTube and make it amazing. Instead it just became bloated with ads for buying music on Yahoo and has remained much the same since the two kids from UIUC coded it.

-Segway, same thing that was mentioned earlier, great expectations and hype and didn't necessarily live up to all of those things.

I'm not saying any of these are bad inventions, I'm just saying the general link between all of these is that they were expected to do great things and none of them have. None of these are complete failures, but flops from what they were expected to be.. yes.

-Greg