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It is not necessary that every new invention will be successful and you can notice it by going through some major technology failures of all time.
By going through failed technologies, you notice that creating a huge hype for any invention prematurely is not the best practice. You should know that technology’s graveyard is full of failed products such as Microsoft’s Zune, Amazon’s Fire Phone and Newton by Apple.
You cannot deny the fact that some failed technologies lay the strong foundation for more great inventions. This post is worth reading for you because it comes up with some major technology failures.
Followings are those failed technologies so you should make sure that you go through them thoroughly to diversify your essay writing knowledge.
1. Virtual Boy
Let’s start off with this failure which did not succeed to get an immense popularity in the tech world. It was launched in 1995 by Nintendo and was very uncomfortable hence people did not like it a lot. This technology was the one which used to offer only a crude tabletop form of what you now experience when you wear stereoscopic 3D glasses while watching movies.
2. HD DVD
In late 2002, two major companies NEC and Toshiba came up with the HD DVD and Sony was also working on the Blu-Ray format collaborating with other famous electronics companies. You should keep in mind that Sony also tried to convince major studios for launching their films in this particular format. The war of disc ended by 2008 and companies stopped supporting HD DVDs. It is not wrong to say that Sony’s Blu-Ray format came in the way of HD DVD to get success.
3. Windows Phone
Keep in mind that Microsoft came up with Windows Phone 7 in 2010 and it was its initial multi-touch mobile operating system. It is essential to remember that it came after 3 years the first iPhone was launched and 2 years after first devices of an Android were launched. This delay affected the Microsoft a lot and now Windows phone happens to account for below than 1% of the market of smartphones.
4. BlackBerry Storm
After the arrival of iPhone, the leader of smartphone market BlackBerry dismissed the concept of touchscreen phones with claiming that people would need keyboards. As people started buying iPhones so BlackBerry came up with the Storm consisting of a touchscreen as well as a keyboard. It is a fact that it did not get an immense popularity among people thus it damaged BlackBerry financially and now it has stopped making its phones.
5. HP Touchpad
Keep in mind that HP launched its Touchpad back in 2011 and after a one month, the company has announced to discontinue every single device running webOS and Touchpad was also included in it. You should know that it happened to be the shortest-lived tablet in the history. If you talk about the current market of tablets so there are two big names one is Apple and another one is Samsung.
6. Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7
Launching Galaxy Note 7 has not turned out to be successful for Samsung and it is because this specific smartphone started exploding and behind that, there were faulty batteries. It damaged the popularity of Galaxy Note 7 thus Samsung got a financial loss.
Wrap-Up…
Above-mentioned are some major failed technologies which did not influence the tech world entirely. By going through these technologies, you might have thought that coming up with a new technology is very challenging as you do not know what goes wrong with you during a launching period.
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