10 Overhyped Tech Products That Died Miserably


#7 BlackBerry Storm

BlacBerry brought out Storm 1, a Smartphone without physical keypad, to take on with iPhone. It had advanced features, like a video camera and GPS that its rival lacked. But its click-based touchscreen irked fast typers, and the browser disappointed. The company did come up with its sequel, but Storm 3 never materialized.

"Incomplete products are hurting our brand tremendously," an anonymous BlackBerry employee wrote.

#6 OnLive

Olive was the first company to offer video games on demand, and it was brilliant idea. The demo was incredible. Showing off the gaming technology at the 2009 GDC and other events, CEO Steve Perlman described how a high-quality console gaming experience could be delivered to people's homes -- without consoles, downloads, or discs.

 The technology had remote servers to handle processing and graphics rendering, high-bandwidth Internet connections, and a television or PC screen in users' homes.

Three years later the game was over. It did not impress hardcore gamers who already had local hardware and were skeptical of lag and other potential service problems.

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