• Dessalines@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 years ago

    Google glass, these spying eyeglasses that google made a huge push for back in like 2015. Turns out even then nobody wanted google spying on everything they can see, and going out in public looking like a hailcorporate tool.

    • morrowind@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      That was less so because of the privacy issues and more because they were very experimental but google billed them as viable. If google had stuck to it and fixed the issues I would argue they would be a bit of a thing today.

  • dinomug@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 years ago
    • Zune / Windows phone
    • Smart glasses
    • GNU Hurd
    • Microsoft Silverlight
    • Firefox OS / Devices
    • (soon) SpaceX / Blue Origin
    • Make America Great Again 🤣
  • YouLookGraphics@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 years ago

    Oh god, where do I even start?

    • VidMe and Vlare.
    • Vanillo.
    • 3D TV’s.
    • Onecoin.
    • XML.
    • Ubuntu Touch.
    • OS/2 WARP. (unfortunately.)
    • Mir and Unity. Not the game engine.
    • PeerTube.
    • Foldable smartphones.
    • Virtual assistants.
    • Dual-screen smartphones.
    • Ruqqus.
    • Zune.
    • Windows Phone.
    • Firefox OS.
    • Silverlight.
    • Tru64.
    • Theranos.
    • ZTE Hawkeye.
    • PlayStation Home.
    • There.
    • morrowind@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      Virtual assistants weren’t as big as expected, but I wouldn’t say they flopped.

      Also, peertube, foldable smartphones, linux mobile (ubuntu touch might be an exception) are all still in early stages, its a bit early to say they flopped.

    • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      To be fair, at least Theranos and Onecoin were outright scams. They were never intended to be the next big thing so much a get even richer quick scheme.

      Also, why XML? It’s used everywhere.

    • abbenm@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      Huh? Peertube is probably the second strongest activitypub based project after Mastodon, at least going by fediverse stats.

      Youtube and Twitter are bigger, but I think the fediverse is a long term project, and organic, active and growing userbase, meeting real use cases, attracting development all while fulfilling an underlying vision are the criteria for success, and I think it’s pretty good on those measures.

  • TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 years ago
    • Ubuntu Touch, unfortunately. Though UBports is keeping it going.
    • Vidme and Vlare, which were both potential alternatives to YouTube but were shut down due to lack of funding.
    • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      Vidme and Vlare, which were both potential alternatives to YouTube but were shut down due to lack of funding.

      This starts to make sense when you realize that YouTube was confirmed to NOT be making a making a profit as late as 2015, and potentially still isn’t. Apparently, having a profitable video streaming business is just hard. The only reason that Google can do it is because they’re rich AF and can afford to do the shotgun method of continuing to operate it at a loss for a long time and hope it becomes profitable eventually.

  • Bloodwrych@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 years ago

    One could arguably say the PC game “Star Citizen”. A decade later and close to half a billion raised and still nowhere near completion

  • morrowind@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 years ago
    • smartwatches: flopped hard because they couldn’t prove their value over your phone. They’re slowly coming back now as companies see their value lies in a few key things like fitness
    • smart wear (mostly google, as usual)
    • I guess a lot ar / vr stuff was hyped before the tech was really ready and went nowhere
    • and as others have mentioned most stuff related to web3 and blockchain
    • quibi?
    • ttmrichter@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      Please specify which “crypto”?

      Cryptography is doing just fine, thank you very much. I presume you meant “cryptocurrency” here?

      • roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        Bitcoin should have led to global currency reform, for a start. That failed. It could still lead to energy reform and other important societal progress. But regulation and other factors are killing it.

        • ttmrichter@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          Bitcoin and its alternatives could never have been a currency. It’s eminently unsuited to that role. (It’s great for Ponzi schemes, extortion schemes, and other criminal enterprises mind.) And how does “using more energy than a medium-sized nation while doing three orders of magnitude fewer transactions than even ONE payment processor” translate to “energy reform”?

          Please, dude, stop being a cryptobro. It’s a really bad look.

          • roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’ve spent too much time explaining currency theory to purple who aren’t really interested. So if you have a specific question I can answer it. But not many questions and not a debate.

  • aeroplain@lemmy.ml
    0·
    2 years ago

    IPFS?

    It’s been years, and it’s still as slow and unreliable as a when I first heard of it.

    • Kohen Shaw@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 years ago

      It’s so annoying because the tech behind it all is cool. But no, ppl are just gambling with it.

  • 0x6b@lemmy.ml
    0·
    2 years ago

    I think NFTs will be ruined before they begin because companies can’t help themselves but be evil, whereas NFTs should really be about artists getting paid for once.

    • handos@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      They’ve already been ruined, they’ve become defined by “art” made by investors solely for profit with no real soul or expression