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1.Google Glass, Google (2013-2014)
2. Tata Nano, Tata Motors (2008)Google Glass have came too soon. It was launched in February 2003. The price was sky high, have issues around privacy, and cultural backlash, this wearable product was not able to connect.
3. Facebook Phone, Facebook (2013)Tata Motors launched the Nano cars with motorcyclists in mind. Tata manufactured the Nano as inexpressible as possible. The price was 100,000 rupees in 2008.
However, due to the low prices the company has to cut corners in production, as a result, there were many serious safety flaws. There were some reports that Nanos were bursting into flames after rear collisions. Tata ultimately sold fewer than 8000 Nanons in 2016–17. Due to low sales, Tata Motors announced the end of production without any direct successor. (Only one was assembled in June 2018).
4. Juicero, Juicero (2013)The Facebook Phone was surrounded by speculation from the moment the first rumors of it is surfaced. What the public got was HTC first, an android skinned device whose main feature was being geared towards the Facebook Home application. The phones exclusive carrier, AT&T, drastically slashed the price to 99 cents in a “temporary sale” that became permanent until the phone’s death.
5. Google+, Google (2011-2019)Juicero was a California-based startup that raised $120M for its fresh-squeezed juice device. But after it was found that its $400, Wi-Fi-enabled machines were no more effective at making juice than squeezing the pre-packaged fruit with your hands, the company shut down within months of its launch.
6. Windows Vista, Microsoft (2007)Google+ isn’t the only social outing on this list from the search giant, but it’s probably the highest-profile disappointment. A closed launch made invites a hot commodity for about a week. Then Google discarded their restrained invitation model, throwing open the doors in an attempt to build a user base that never lived up to their expectations of creating a possible Facebook competitor. Google+ was shuttered permanently on April 2, 2019.
7. Windows Phone, Microsoft (2010)Windows XP had been the Windows version for five years when Vista hit the scene, so many customers were loathed to change over. Even Moreso when reviews revealed that the new OS was less user-friendly than XP. This led to users paying to have their Vista systems downgraded back to XP and Microsoft admitting its mistake and allowing computer manufacturers to offer XP on new computers. It hastened production on Windows 7.
8. Apple NewtonMicrosoft was late to the smartphone game, and it never quite caught up. Three years after the iPhone took the world by storm, Microsoft debuted the Windows Phone, but to limited fanfare. Android phones had also been on the market for around two years, further increasing the competitive landscape for Microsoft’s device. The Windows Phone represented less than 1% of the total smartphone market in 2017, according to Recode — Microsoft discontinued the development of new features for the device that same year.
9. BlackBerryA PDA (personal digital assistant) that suffered from a poorly functioning operating system, the Apple Newton never caught on. However, the development of Apple Newton did indirectly lead to the iPad, proving that learning from failure can lead to great success.
10. MySpaceBefore the iPhone, there was the BlackBerry — or “CrackBerry,” as the devices’ obsessed users affectionately referred to them. These iconic devices were many users’ first smartphones, able to connect to the Internet, send and receive email, and chat with one another over the company’s BlackBerry Messenger, or BBM, service. And they were everywhere: Research in Motion, as BlackBerry, was then called, sold more than 50 million of the devices in 2011.
But that proved to be the company’s high-water mark. RIM failed to keep up with the times, stubbornly sticking with its trademark physical keyboard rather than adopting an iPhone-like full touchscreen, which quickly became fashionable. By 2016, BlackBerry was selling only about 4 million devices annually. BlackBerry exists today only as a shadow of its former self, but the company’s devices paved the way for the super-powered smartphones we carry around today.
11. SegwayMySpace is once-king of social media that was overtaken by rival Facebook around 2009. What happened? Some observers blame bureaucratic morass after NewsCorp purchased MySpace's parent company for $580 million in 2005. Facebook, which now boasts 1.86 billion monthly active users, likely learned from MySpace's demise, staying quick to adapt to changing user tastes and remaining unafraid to pay big sums to gobble up potential rivals like Instagram, which it acquired for $1 billion in 2012.
Perhaps no gadget evokes the early turn of the century like the Segway, a personal motorized scooter that riders control by leaning in one direction or another. Designed as a revolutionary new transportation option, Segways have largely been relegated to the realm of the mall cop and tour group. But for whatever reason, technologists never tire of trying to replace the well-proven movement method of walking around — The Great Hoverboard Craze of 2015-16 can trace its origins directly to this stand-up scooter.
