Tech Fails

[Retard Marine]

For example, if you wanted to switch to another game, you had to take off the cover and remove the battery because some genius thought it would be a good idea to put the game cart slot under the battery.
Imagine fucking with that shit on a bus.

The solution to this was of course to buy a big generic MMC card and leave it there, then just pirate all the games and applications.

You forgot to mention that you had to hold it this way to talk:

You could actually usually hear calls well enough holding it the "regular" way even though sidetalking was the intended way. Or reversed if you don't want to look too silly but don't want to get the screen smudgy. Some people drilled holes for the speaker in the back but I found that's not really necessary.

At one point it was a very cheap way to get a Symbian S60 smartphone with relatively good specs (16MBs of RAM and all) when everyone wanted to get rid of them lol. I still have mine.

 

[Mikoyan]

The solution to this was of course to buy a big generic MMC card and leave it there, then just pirate all the games and applications.

I suspect the under the battery thing was for the same reason they usually put the SIM cards under the battery: S60 didn't like its storage changing much and making sure you had a hard reboot was a great way to 'fix' that.

 

[Civillian 18]

Spotify Car Thing
Less of a fail and more of a 'we took it out back and shot it in the head' but still.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Spotify Car Thing

I'm trying to get hold of one of those. You can flash a custom firmware on it and use it as a pretty versatile little doodad.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

I'm convinced that if Irving Gould and Medhi Ali weren't the dictionary definition of clueless/greedy tech executives, Commodore would still be around today and we'd all be running AmigaOS 10 instead of Windows.

 

[Quence]

PowerMac G5, thing was beat by AMD chips half it's price and the cooling system had defective seals so it would piss neon green coolant on your floor.

Impossible! Apple does not make mistakes.

 

[HarblMcDavid]

How contemporary of a failure are we talking about because uh...




>had it since January of this year

e: archives, which are all basically busted because X now puts this dumb overlay in

https://archive.is/sZoYZ

https://archive.is/WNnq7

https://archive.is/10GuA

https://archive.is/zx57v

(last one is still technically WIP)

Additional context:

>salt water
>a battery that had previously been having issues like SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED LIFE

To be clear I think this is a good test case for if ring-tech is a good idea because it is being subjected to average human neglect: this is how it will end up being used, and if it can't stand up to that it probably is a bad idea to make it.

 

[The Grognard]

I'm convinced that if Irving Gould and Medhi Ali weren't the dictionary definition of clueless/greedy tech executives, Commodore would still be around today and we'd all be running AmigaOS 10 instead of Windows.

While this is a somewhat optimistic statement, if Commodore was competently run it certainly would occupy it's own niche market segment akin to how MacOS exists today. Maybe around 10 percent of the market, with immense cultist support.

 

[CyberAutist111]

You forgot to mention that you had to hold it this way to talk:

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Always reminds me of sidetalking.com, the site made to make fun at the Taco Phone as it was nicknamed. The site is a classic.
And yes. its as retarded as it looks.


Thread Tax and Infodump: The Microsoft Kin, that was launched in May of 2010. A flop so bad that only lasted less than 2 months before being axed. It was a phone that was mostly built for social media.

It had two models, The Kin ONE, and the Kin TWO (very creative). While the phones were priced pretty low, you also needed to buy a subscription data plan to Verizon (and only them) to even use it, which costs at its highest fee about 70 bucks a month. Kin was marketed towards teenagers.

The Kin was also super lacking in basic shit you can find in PDAs a few years before. No IM client support, no contact transferring, it didn't even have a fucking calendar. Also it had this weird social network called "Loop", that was slow as hell and updated every 15 minutes. A social media device that sucks at social media.

It's rumor how much it really sold, some say only a laughable 500, while others say lower than 10,000. Anyway it was a disaster.

 

[Mikoyan]

It had two models, The Kin ONE, and the Kin TWO (very creative). While the phones were priced pretty low, you also needed to buy a subscription data plan to Verizon (and only them) to even use it, which costs at its highest fee about 70 bucks a month. Kin was marketed towards teenagers.

The Kin's parlor trick was that Microsoft and Danger intended to negotiate for it to sit on a featurephone data plan which was super cheap but nobody would play ball - and I think Verizon rugpulled them on it. It still would've been a dead end but...

(Oh yeah for context: They thought that would work because it was Danger's whole thing. The Hiptop did massive numbers on T-Mobile using tethered data on a special plan.)

Of course Danger was already in pretty deep shit because they oopsed a SAN migration and lost everyone's data the previous year.