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Date (Launched) Product Description Why it Failed Status First Tweets Once the go-to networking hub for teenagers and By the end of 2011 users had plummeted by more than half MySpace is now attempting to do bands, the site’s interface suddenly looked fussy and from 54.3m to 24.9m, looking increasingly pitiful as what it should have done five years @biz Listening to some guy reading an article outdated once Facebook’s pared-down site hit the Facebook approaches 1bn global users. But is it necessarily ago as it restructures itself around its sarcastically out loud about myspace on the train August 2003 MySpace mainstream in 2008. game over? greatest differentiator: music. Mar 23, 19:28 2006 While YouTube is seen as leading the challenge against @noah posting biz stone vid on youtube. funny YouTube is a video-sharing website, on which users traditional media companies, the company itself is struggling Google bought YouTube and started everytime. remembering that livia laughs at BO. February 2005 YouTube can upload, view and share videos. to profit from its digital popularity. showing advertising and partnerships. Mar 25, 19:05 2006 Sony did a better job convincing major film studios to release high definition editions of movies for Blu-ray. Analysts HD DVD was one of two formats for high definition believe that when Sony got Warner Brothers to adopt Blu- Apri 2006 HD DVD DVDs. The other format was Blu-ray. ray exclusively, it won the battle against HD DVD. Discontinued. Lost against Blu-ray. Zune was a digital media player software for Windows machines, a music subscription service Microsoft, which had access to as much hardware known as a 'Zune Music Pass', music and video development expertise as any company in the world and the In October 2011, Microsoft streaming services for the Xbox 360 game console capital to support a massive marketing budget for new announced the discontinuation of all via the Zune Software, music, TV and movie sales, products failed completely in its attempt to get a large part of Zune hardware, encouraging users to @Mike_FTW I got a brown Zune!!! Nov 10, 18:17 November 2006 Microsoft Zune and the media software for Windows Phone. the iPod market. transition to Windows Phone. 2006 Windows Vista is an operating system released in several variations by Microsoft for use on personal Apple successfully demonized Vista, Windows XP is too @amiantos Playing around with Vista RC1. computers, including home and business desktops, entrenched, There wasn't supposed to be a Vista, It broke Kinda nifty. See no reason to switch from XP January 2007 Windows Vista laptops, tablet PCs, and media center PCs too much stuff. Dead. Succeeded by Windows 7 though. Sep 11, 03:02 2006 Designed to enable the remote access and MobileMe could not recover from a miserable debut, management of email, contacts, calendar, photos, performance remained uneven over time, The name failed to Dead. Transformed tools through to July 2008 MobileMe and files. resonate, was too expensive. iCloud. Spotify is a Swedish music streaming service offering digitally restricted streaming of selected Spotify was launched in the USA on 14 July 2011, in music from a range of major and independent record Germany on 13 March 2012, and in Australia and New labels, including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group, Zealand on 22 May 2012 excluding away a big chunk of its As of May 2012, the service is @citizenspace We were just visited by some nice October 2008 Spotify and Universal. audience early on. available in 16 major countries. Swedes from Spotify.com. Apr 3, 18:05 2007 Product Schizophrenia - lack of a coherent product definition UI Complexity - uhm... did you consider asking non-geeks for feedback? Platform Complexity - way too many aspects for a small a web-based computing platform and team to support communications protocol designed to merge key Community - the open sourcing process has been slow and features of communications media such as email, painful May 2009 Google Wave instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. Federation - or lack thereof Discontinued. Two reasons. First, we already have a site like that – Yahoo Answers. Yes, Yahoo Answers is a haven for teenagers A question and answer site, Quora was supposed to asking for homework help, but there are plenty of legitimate build up a foundation of knowledge. You could ask questions, too. And second, a user can get their answer Still around, may linger in purgatory and answer questions, vote for the best answer, better and faster through Google, friends on twitter or for years, but the future does not look June 2009 Quora choose your areas of expertise, and ‘follow’ people. Facebook, or emailing a friend. bright. Twitter didn't capitalize on their massive adoption increase Twitter is an online social networking service and and sell. Worse yet, they didn't buy. Twitter features were microblogging service that enables its users to send unsuccessful in comparison to original third-party designs. and read text-based messages of up to 140 Consistently experiencing downtime at a level that is @jeremy Having a twitter just now. Mar 21, 16:03 2009 Twitter characters, known as "tweets". unacceptable for any major web app. 2006 A social networking, microblogging and messaging tool that was developed by Google and integrated Having decided to abandon Google Wave, the world's into their web-based email program, Gmail users favourite search engine decided to pursue Google Buzz; it could share links, photos, videos, status messages was a service that allowed people to follow you and see and comments organized in "conversations" and status updates, a la Twitter but it was something that never February 2010 Google Buzz visible in the user's inbox. really caught on, and was soon forgotten. Discontinued December 15, 2011 July 16, 2010, at a press conference, Steve Jobs announced that Apple Shortly after the iPhone 4 was launched, some consumers would provide all iPhone 4 owners reported that signal strength of the phone was reduced when with a free case to help solve the The iPhone 4 is a touchscreen slate 3G smartphone touching the lower left edge of the phone, bridging one of the antenna issue and a refund to those developed by Apple Inc. It is the fourth generation two locations which separates the two antennas, resulting in users who had already purchased a June 2010 iPhone 4 'Antennagate' iPhone, and successor to the iPhone 3GS. dropped calls in some areas with lower signal reception. Bumper. The idea of integrating a mini-social network inside iTunes is a nice idea, but does anyone actually use it as it was A software-based, music-oriented social networking intended to be used? There isn't any integration with and recommender system service developed and Facebook, and Ping is just another way for Apple to make September 2010 iTunes Ping operated by Apple. even more money out of you. Still active. Palm couldn't find the formula for over-the-air Palm (PALM) produced both a portable wireless synchronization with Microsoft Outlook, which business device and an operating system for portable users demand and RIM nailed with its BlackBerry device. Death. 2011 Palm hardware devices and desktops. Palm also suffered from multiple product delays. Discontinued. Bought by HP. 3D television (3DTV) is television that conveys depth perception to the viewer by employing techniques After being all the buzz at the trend-making Consumer such as stereoscopic display, multi-view display, 2D- Electronics Show in January, 3-D television didn't do much January 2010 3-D TV plus-depth, or any other form of 3D display. of anything this year. Still active. Facebook collects as much data from its visitors as Google and Microsoft. The security team began Roughly half-billion users on the site got really miffed when a Still active. With a few folks actually expanding its efforts to reduce the risks to users' handful of privacy bugs, among other things, made private left on a protester-created "Quit April 2010 Facebook Privacy privacy, but privacy concerns remain. chat conversations briefly visible to Facebook friends. Facebook Day." A Linux-based tablet computer. Originally, Fusion Garage was working with Michael Arrington to Unfortunately, the ill-fated device release it as the CrunchPad, but in November 2009 "The entire project self destructed over nothing more than launched within days of the iPad. In Fusion Garage informed Arrington it would be selling greed, jealousy and miscommunication." Thus, Fusion November 2010, Fusion Garage the product alone. Arrington has responded by filing Garage took the reigns, and the CrunchPad became the pulled the plug on this once- March 2010 JooJoo a lawsuit against Fusion Garage. JooJoo. promising tablet. Google's flagship smartphone manufactured by Taiwan's HTC Corporation. Uses the Android open Google's bold marketing idea to sidestep wireless carriers source mobile operating system. Features of the and sell the Nexus One directly to consumers, who could phone include the ability to transcribe voice to text, then choose their own carrier. Advertisements for the device an additional microphone for dynamic noise were comparatively scant from carriers, as well as from suppression, and voice guided turn-by-turn Google. Despite strong enough reviews, the Nexus One January 2010 HTC Nexus One navigation to drivers. failed to make a lasting impression. Still active. PlayStation Move is a motion-sensing game controller platform for the PlayStation 3 (PS3) video game console by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE). Based around a handheld motion controller Sony hadn’t done a good enough job supporting the wand, PlayStation Move uses the PlayStation Eye hardware with quality titles, and suggested that the camera to track the wand's position, and inertial PlayStation Move hardware is best relegated to the causal September 2010 Playstation Move sensors in the wand to detect its motion.