You’ll find that when a new product or service fails, people wait to say, “I told you so.”
But even though it initially looked like a turkey destined for dustbin. But there are many predictive technological disasters that have been successful. This is the most memorable.
Amazon Echo
The digital voice assistant built into the smartphone is useful. But some cell phone owners bother them, so why does Amazon want to associate the same type of AI technology with home Bluetooth speakers?
Of course, the Amazon Echo would suffer from the same complaints. Smartwatch: Why would anyone want it when it wouldn’t work better? And at least mobile phones have the advantage of screens.
However, it turns out that people ask Alexa to play music, read the news, and show all the other skills that third parties have started putting together in the hundreds. It turns out that controlling smart devices with your voice is enough. Cold
Two years after its release, Echo sold an estimated 5.1 million units. This success has made smart speakers from Amazon (speakers with screens) as well as companies like Google. here
Ipad
After years of slow, unattractive and inefficient tablet PCs, Apple’s decision to launch its own slate has been confusing and ridiculous, especially when it comes to time. People use netbooks to meet their demand for cheap mobile computing.
Additionally, many consider Apple’s lack of support for Flash in Mobile Safari a major problem.
But despite being listed as a huge and “gasping” iPhone / iPod touch, the iPad sold 15 million units and made Apple $ 10 billion within nine months of launch.
Since the arrival of the first generation in 2010, there have been many new generations and total sales are expected to reach 300 million. Do not underestimate the power of Steve Jobs.
Spider web
Yes, it was a huge one when Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989, can he imagine that 3.5 billion people were using it almost 30 years later?
At the beginning of the decade, many saw the web as just a domain of nerds and variations. Today the Internet is so entangled in our lives that it is difficult to imagine that it will never survive.
But many people think that it will never be removed. The web is a slow, confusing and potentially dangerous place in the early years, especially for the uncertainties they are dealing with. Universal appeal is still a long way to go.
In 1995, telecommunications expert Waring Partridge told Wired, “Most successful things don’t require the withdrawal of 250 million people.”
Clifford Staal, an astronomer, writer and teacher, is equally disparaging about the net. In their book – Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Highway of Information – they write, “No online database can replace your daily newspaper,” referring to the ecommerce concept “Baloney”.
As Ethernet co-inventor Robert Metcalf observed in 1995, “I predicted that the Internet would go into a shiny supernova and in 1996 it was completely destroyed.” “They literally consumed them after two years, mixing a newspaper column with water.
Bitcoin
If you have ever tried to explain what bitcoin (or other cryptocurrency) is and how it works for someone who is not very tech-savvy, it is easy to understand why it is suspect. being seen.
Trying to spell PC mining virtual money using something virtually everything seems like the best craze and worst scam or pyramid schemes. Some are used to describe many cryptocurrencies.
But going back to 2015, which saw its price drop below $ 200, early investors laughed at the bank: a bitcoin cost over $ 8,000 at the time of writing.
However it is still associated with illegal activities. But cryptocurrency is still legally accepted and is now an accepted form of payment for many retailers.
Nintendo Switch
A $ 300 handheld hybrid system from the company whose home console is the Wii U? And in an age when almost everyone carries a powerful smartphone? It looks like Nintendo, which has suffered consecutive losses from 2012 to 2014, is making a big mistake.
In addition to hardcore Nintendo fans at the beginning, there were many gamers who thought the switch would be a success. The company seems to be targeting the mobile market which has been swallowed up by the advent of hand gaming. Grab and while it can be used at home but there is no way that the switch will compete with the performance of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
