7 Epic Gadget Flops

TheKrell

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• Sep 24, 2014

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I found this amusing: http://money.cnn.com/gallery/technology/2014/09/24/gadget-flops/index.html?iid=Lead

 

Ilya

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Hmm... I still happily use one of those devices. What a loser!
I have Microsoft Zune HD (not the one pictured, but the last model). It still works perfectly as a music player and can tune to HD radio too! Never had a reason to replace it with anything.

 

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My kid the engineering upperclassman just put away his laptop and android tablet in favor of a Surface 3. I must agree it is a pretty impressive device that obsoleted both of them. I thought he would still need the laptop to interface, but the surface has USB3 built in and that seems to cover everything.

 

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jayn_j said:

My kid the engineering upperclassman just put away his laptop and android tablet in favor of a Surface 3. I must agree it is a pretty impressive device that obsoleted both of them. I thought he would still need the laptop to interface, but the surface has USB3 built in and that seems to cover everything.

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There is no such thing as Surface 3 (at least not yet). There is Surface Pro 3.
Surface Pro is an excellent device as it runs full Windows 8 and has a very powerful CPU.
The one that was a flop was Surface (the non-Pro version) with a very restricted Windows RT.

 

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jayn_j

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Ilya said:

There is no such thing as Surface 3 (at least not yet). There is Surface Pro 3.
Surface Pro is an excellent device as it runs full Windows 8 and has a very powerful CPU.
The one that was a flop was Surface (the non-Pro version) with a very restricted Windows RT.

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aha, my bad. I knew that.

 

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• Sep 25, 2014

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I guess they forgot about the CueCat.

 

TheKrell

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• Sep 26, 2014

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The CueCat was not EPIC so it cannot be an EPIC FAIL.