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It's been a harsh year for a number of the big names in consumer technology. While previous years have seen huge gadget successes such as Samsung’s Galaxy S3 or Apple’s iPad, 2013 seems more notable for fizzles than hits.
Here are some of the year’s biggest tech busts.
Galaxy Gear smartwatch
Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch is likely to go down as the biggest gadget bust of 2013. Reviewers savaged it, pointing out a number of limitations and deficiencies.
For one, it only worked in conjunction with Samsung’s Galaxy Note 3 phone. Then there was the fact that it did little beyond supplying notifications and text messages. It was also big and bulky, and, at $300, overpriced.
All that goes a long way to explain why Samsung sold fewer than 50,000 units of the Gear this fall.
Facebook Home
In April, after months of rumors, Facebook finally released the "Facebook Phone." OK, so Facebook didn't exactly release a phone of its own, but it released Facebook Home, an app for Android that put Facebook at the center of the experience on an Android phone. It included new "chat head" features and placed photos from one's Newsfeed right on the lock screen.
However, the software and the first phone to run it -- the HTC First -- didn't exactly hit it out of the park. AT&T stopped carrying the phone just months after the release and the Home software received predominantly negative reviews, both by experts and users. Just try and find a positive review in the Google Play Store.
Facebook's Poke App
Snapchat has made a mockery of Facebook this year. At the end of 2012, Facebook tried to crush Snapchat with Poke, which was a clone of Snapchat. No one used it. So, if you can't beat 'em, buy 'em, right? Snapchat rejected a $1 billion offer from Facebook. Then it reportedly rejected a $3 billion buyout offer. Not a good look for the mighty Facebook.
Motorola's Moto X is a good phone, but it's been a flop in the market. It's barely selling despite a massive marketing push from Google/Motorola. We're not sure what Motorola can do about this other than keep trying to improve its product, and hope that eventually consumers come around.
Apple iPhone 5C
For the past half-a-decade, every gadget that Apple made has sold like hot cakes. But not iPhone 5C. The poor man’s iPhone has an “unapologetically plastic” body, iPhone 5’s specs and nothing to boast of except new colour options. Apple has reportedly cut its production volumes by a large margin and is trying to peddle existing stocks via various schemes. Definitely a fail.
Apple released very serious advertisements this year about why it does what it does. The ads were a hit with Apple employees and Apple bloggers. But for normal people, they were off-putting and cold. The ads didn't last very long.
BlackBerry
Without a doubt, BlackBerry deserves a place in this list. The company’s last shot at resurgence, BlackBerry 10 operating system failed to click with consumers. The company's first BB10-powered phones Z10 and Q10 smartphones failed to find too many takers. The fact that its newly-crowned creative director Alicia Keys was caught tweeting from an iPhone did not help, though she claimed her account was hacked.
The company decided to put itself on the block for sale, but later decided against this move. It got a billion-dollar boost from investor Prem Watsa. In the past quarter, BlackBerry sold 1.9 million smartphones, almost half of what it shipped in the previous quarter
BlackBerry Z10
The year 2013 was supposed to mark BlackBerry's comeback. It even shed the company name RIM for a fresh start. In January it released BlackBerry 10, the next version of its operating system, and the BlackBerry Z10, the first phone to run the software. While the new interface was very touch-friendly and there were more apps than the previous platform, it didn't rival the functionality of the iPhone or Android phones.
Instead, 2013 became the year of BlackBerry's demise. In September the company reported a $1 billion loss and that it was laying off 40 percent of its employees. In the months after that, it would struggle with a decision to go private. As 2014 draws near, BlackBerry remains a public company with a new CEO and a very uncertain future.
Surface tablets
Similarly, Microsoft’s initial foray into tablets landed with a resounding thud. The Surface RT, released in October of last year, managed to sell fewer than a million units by the end of the winter, or a third of what the company had expected. The beefier Surface Pro, intended as a laptop replacement, sold just 400,000 in the month after its release in February. In contrast, Apple sold about 42 million iPads between October 2012 and the end of March 2013.
Microsoft’s tablets were generally criticized for being too big and heavy, with not enough battery life or app capabilities. The RT also didn’t run a full version of Windows, meaning that users couldn’t take advantage of all the programs available for the operating system.
“It had been crippled by the manufacturer, and that’s often the case with a failed product,” says Silicon Valley technology analyst Rob Enderle. “Somebody brings out a product and is afraid it’s going to cannibalize something that’s more expensive, so they cripple it and it doesn’t sell.”
Twitter Music
Remember Twitter Music? Probably not. Even though Twitter successfully promoted its Twitter Music app with popular artists including Jason Mraz and Ne-Yo, it didn't catch on when it was released to the public in April. Just a few months later, in October, the New York Times reported that Twitter was planning to shut down its music app.
Despite the misstep, 2013 was a very successful year for Twitter. Its IPO went off without a hitch, it now has 200 million monthly active users and it has regularly added new features to its apps to improve the experience.
Yahoo
It’s never a good sign when a company CEO feels compelled to apologize for a botched product (remember Tim Cook and Apple Maps?). In 2013, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer joined that exalted group when she had to issue a mea culpa for Yahoo Mail’s days-long outage that left about 1 million people without access to their inboxes. That’s just the tip of the iceberg, though, as Yahoo Mail users have been flooding the Web with complaints for months over the service’s redesign. Taking away the option to sort mail alphabetically by sender has seemed to inspire the most ire. A Change.org petition pleading for Yahoo to bring back the old Yahoo Mail now has more than 41,000 signatures.Marissa Mayer was personally involved in the design of Yahoo's new logo. Maybe she should have stayed away.
The Google Barge
Google was working on a mysterious barge in the San Francisco Bay. Initial speculation said it was going to be a floating data center. Later reports said it would be a storefront for Google Glass. Now, it looks like it might not be anything because Google failed to get the proper permits for the barge. The multi-million dollar project is now under investigation.
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