Everyone know what are the biggest tech companies around the world. You must have heard their success stories and must be using the products of these companies. But! When there is success there is also failure. In today's post I will be sharing with you 7 Failed products of these biggest companies. You might not have even heard the names of some products.
So, without any delay let's start our reading our failures list one by one! Hope, You find it interesting!
1. AMAZON FIRE PHONE {2014}
You must have heard 'Amazon fire stick'. But there is also Amazon Fire Phone. It was a smart phone designed by Amazon to compete with Iphone and Samsung galaxy series.It was released in the year 2014.There were major expectations on this.But, It did not come out as expected and hence, became a failure. There was a total loss of $170 million to the company.
Let's look a bit deep and see two main reasons for its failure
A.Too expensive- This phone was launched with a price tag of $199 but it was really not worth it to give up your iphone or samsung galaxy(nearly same price). SO, people never showed interest towards it.
B.Small App Store- Even though this phone was supported by Android, it has a separate app store. That means the app developers have to design a separate version of their app. So, there were very few apps in the app store.
2.GOOGLE PLUS{2011}
Google+ was the social network designed by google. It hit the market when other social networks like Facebook, Twitter were already popular.However it hit nearly 90 million users within a year.
But there was no user engagement i.e. there were few post,few activity going on in there. People did not show interest in it. Further there were complaints of data leak,errors etc.
The incapability of catching up with other social-media platforms made it a dead project. It was finally closed in the year 2018.
3.SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 7{2016}
This was the 7th version of the note series from Samsung.It was rated very well by the critics. It had amazing features like SUPER AMOLED display, android V-6.0.1(marshmallow-latest at that time) etc. It even had great sales at the beginning. But that's when the problems started!
There was problem with the battery and most of the phones EXPLODED! Yeah! you read right. There were lot of cases of phone explosion. This mobile was even banned in many public places and flights. Eventually Samsung closed its production later.
Indeed it was an Exploding failure for the company...
4. APPLE MAPS{2012}
Apple maps was launched in the year 2012. It was designed to replace google maps in Iphones and IPads. It came as a default map in apple products back in 2012. But,it did not succeed much. There were many errors in the maps.
It had some serious issues like incorrect directions,distorted images,wrong addresses etc.
5.GOOGLE GLASS{2013}
Google glass was created by Google X. It was a revolutionary project which sounded like a science fiction gadget coming true.It could record videos and photos just by your command,help you search web and check mails at one go. It was an eye-wear that would replace a phone. But!There were many problems with it too.
a)The device emitted alot of radiation and it would be very dangerous to keep it very near to your brain constantly.
b) There was even privacy issue. Just think, with Glass you can record everything that you can see, this will be the case with every other user. As a result,it will give rise to privacy and piracy issues.
c) This was not very appealing.It looked weird and unattractive to wear this in public. Further, it was not safe to wear it in crowd areas considering it's price.(you don't want to loose your expensive specs just like that right!)
6.APPLE AIR POWER{2017}
Apple Air power is a charging mat that could charge your Iphone,Airpods,IWatch just by contact.
That means, it transfers electrical charge into the devices just through contact alone.It was designed to be so powerful that it can charge your three devices(phone,watch,air pods).But it was discontinued by apple just by a statement that Air Power didn't meet it's high standards.
The truth is, there were many issues in this project. There was heating problem because of large no of coils in it. It even proved difficult to charge multiple devices. Further, there were even many software problems in it.
7.WINDOWS 8{2012}
This was released in the year 2012. It was the time when Microsoft was deciding to make their tablets. Windows 8 was designed to act as an OS for both the tablets and the traditional desktops.
The interface of windows 8 was not good for Desktops. This made users forget everything they ever learnt about windows and forced them to learn an entirely new way.
Further, traditional Windows-7 users were not really ready to shift to windows 8. As a result it did not gain much attention.
That's it for today guys. Hope you find my post interesting and informative. Comment your opinion.
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