Top 10 Tech Fails of 2012
Bad Idea Award: Google Nexus Q
Google's Nexus Q could have easily made our list of most overpriced gadgets of all-time . . . if it had actually come out. First shown and given to attendees at Google I/O 2012, the Nexus Q is a set-top box in the shape of an orb that streams either music or movies to your home theater from Google Play and Google Play only.
While a $50 Roku box, a $100 Apple TV or a $99 Google TV box offers a variety of content services and even apps, the $299 Nexus Q didn't even have Netflix. Once you got over its unique design, the Nexus Q's main feature was allowing multiple users to add to the same playlist, something that was sure to create plenty of arguments among family members with different tastes. To Google's credit, the company quickly realized it had a dud on its hands, stopped accepting new orders and gave free units to anyone who had preordered.
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December 11th, 2012 at 3:55 pm
I think the Asus thing is hilarious. The shared data plan is criminal. And Blackberry is in serious trouble.
December 13th, 2012 at 4:22 am
LOL, an orb for the Google Nexus Q. That should have been stopped as soon as someone said “orb.” Poor Blackberry can’t really do anything right, what happened to them, really do like the phones & hope that 2013 will be better for them. Why in the world would Asus put USB ports in the back of the laptop, good concept just bad execution. The shared plans are ridiculous, thank goodness they still have single plans. Dell is one of the worst computer makes ever and their support is not any better. Never did get any help with my Dell computer when I was trying to back-up the system. Never did figure out what the problem was and just gave up, will never purchase another Dell computer again.