computerworld.com — "Hype is the coin of the realm in the technology business. If you listen to vendors and the media, it may sometimes seem as though every new product, service, concept or even security threat will be the Next Big Thing. Some live up to all the fuss, but many don't -- and some fail spectacularly."
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doctechnicalApr 5, 2007
I always thought the Lisa was sort of "proof-of-concept", but I'm probably just being naiive. I simply can't imagine someone at Apple actually using the Lisa and thinking "Oh yeah, we can sell a boatload of these babies at ten grand a pop! Rollem' guys! And hey, I've got a great idea about changing the formula for Coke, too!"The Lisa wasn't just slow, it wasn't just painfully slow, I was *glacially* slow. Imagine Windows Vista running on a Pentium 100 with 32 meg of RAM. Like that. But slower.
oscbashApr 5, 2007
Despite DAT's lack of success in the consumer market, it was in healthy use by audio professionals. For this reason, I do not think the format "flopped".
rspeedApr 5, 2007
You're joking, right?"Apple has an e-book format"No they don't."iListen speech recognition technology"That's 3rd party."and supports push technology like RSS feeds"RSS isn't a push technology. In fact, it's pretty much the complete opposite type of operation.
vlatroApr 5, 2007
College?! A word of advice: Get your money back.
Closed AccountApr 6, 2007
@mdnashI still have my dreamcast and love it. It plays burned games (without a mod chip) I can play emulated neo geo games, like metal slug. The arcade sticks with marvel vs capcom are nicce.
256byteramApr 6, 2007
A friend is always saying Millennium is great, provided you partition and format your hard drive with Windows 98. His theory is they screwed the FAT32 system.IMO, Windows 3.11 is the best one so far.
ggkoApr 6, 2007
I wouldn't say the Neo Geo qualifies as a flop. At $200 per game, I don't think they expected it to be in every home. I see far more Neons on the road than Porches, does that make the latter a flop? Installed base aside, the Neo saw development all through the 90s and into this decade, and spawned fighters that gave king-of-the-hill Capcom some serious competition ... not to mention the Metal Slug series.
ggkoApr 6, 2007
Sold well enough that Sega is still in the hardware business?
zhulienApr 6, 2007
what's that got to do with them remaining in business even. they sold heaps and made a fortune off it. It's like this, if you open a company and sell product A and make a fortune off it, but products B, C, D etc make huge losses, product A isn't a flop. From what I remember, product A (aka Dreamcast) wasn't sold at a loss, but products B, C, D (ie: games which were pirated a lot) perhaps didn't make a LOT of money as Sega wanted.
tomaroccoApr 6, 2007
Laser Disc Movies...size of an LP record.