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Failed Tech Pt. 1
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This week Graham and Cody discuss five different tech products that didn't exactly live up to what their creators expected. Strap on your dvd players because there are some real gems in this bunch
News
- Microsoft wants crossplay with PS4?
- Xbox live cross platform online play
- Sony's response to XBL cross play
- Apple Event March 21st
- Tribute to Iwata at GDC
Main Topic - Failed Tech
- Amazon Fire Phone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Phone)
- Ran Amazon’s variant of Android
- Used cameras and gyroscope to give the UI “depth”
- Object recognition that connected with Amazon’s online shopping business
- Apple Lisa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa)
- $10,000 (almost $24,000 adjusted for inflation)
- High price pushed customers to IBM PCs and eventually Apple’s own Macintosh
- Apple’s first GUI-based computer
- $10,000 (almost $24,000 adjusted for inflation)
- Eyetop Wearable DVD Player (http://www.amazon.com/Eyetop-DVD/dp/B0006IRS1A)
- Promised private dvd viewing
- Powered by a battery in an over-the-shoulder sling
- Caused motion sickness
- Screen went over right eye only
- You had to squint to see the 320 x 240 picture
- Twitter Peek (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peek_(mobile_Internet_device))
- A $100 (+ $7.95 /month) device only capable of accessing Twitter
- $299 for “lifelong” service, which was shut down in January 2012
- Only could send/view tweets, no search function or web browser for following links
- Looked like a Blackberry, complete with QWERTY keyboard
- A $100 (+ $7.95 /month) device only capable of accessing Twitter
- Motorola ROKR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Rokr)
- It cost $249 when released
- The first “iTunes phone”
- Collaboration between Apple and Motorola
- Later versions dropped iTunes compatibility for RealPlayer
- Limited music functionality
- Limited to 100 songs regardless of internal storage
- Music transfer was slow
- Couldn’t wirelessly transfer or download music
- Undercut by iPod Nano
- Steve Jobs presenting the Rokr
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