# The biggest tech flops of all time

Gadgets and products from big tech companies that promised to change everything and ended up as famous failures: from the Apple Newton to Google Glass and Quibi.

- 12 votes · 20 items
- May 25, 2025 · brian.austin
- https://even.best/en/l/1625/the-biggest-tech-flops-of-all-time

## Top 20

1. **Google Glass** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2013. Smart glasses killed off for consumers by their price and privacy fears.
2. **Samsung Galaxy Note 7** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2016. Its batteries caught fire and Samsung had to recall every unit.
3. **Amazon Fire Phone** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2014. Amazon's phone with a 3D effect, pulled about a year later.
4. **Microsoft Bob** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1995. A cartoon house as a Windows interface.
5. **Ouya** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2013. An Android console funded on Kickstarter that never took off.
6. **Juicero** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 2016. A $700 juicer whose juice packs could be squeezed by hand just as well.
7. **Nintendo Virtual Boy** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1995. A red-and-black 3D console that gave players headaches.
8. **Segway** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2001. The self-balancing scooter that was going to change cities; production ended in 2020.
9. **Microsoft Zune** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2006. The iPod rival that arrived too late and was dropped in 2011.
10. **Windows Vista** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2007. Slow, demanding and full of permission prompts.
11. **Apple Newton** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1993. A pioneering handheld mocked for its handwriting recognition.
12. **Quibi** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2020. Short premium videos for phones; it lasted about six months.
13. **Betamax** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1975. Sony's video format that lost the war to VHS.
14. **HD DVD** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2006. Toshiba's high-definition disc, defeated by Blu-ray in 2008.
15. **Apple Lisa** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1983. A graphical computer so expensive it hardly sold.
16. **Nokia N-Gage** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2003. A phone-console you had to hold sideways to make calls.
17. **Microsoft Kin** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2010. Social phones for teenagers withdrawn after about 48 days.
18. **HTC First** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2013. The "Facebook phone", with Facebook Home on the lock screen.
19. **Apple Pippin** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1996. Apple's games console, one of the worst-selling ever.
20. **Clippy** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1997. Microsoft Office's paperclip assistant, as famous as it was annoying.

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