IT History: IT Historical Failure Lesson [2004-11-5] IT History The most significant technology and product failure lesson The 8 most important IT technology in IT history, the high-tech industry has been in happening too many major failures. Millions of dollars and countless technicians have been consumed, waste on these bad, design ideas, and difficult to use. Companies that create these products often disappear. How to distinguish between simple bad products and terrible major mistakes? Sometimes it is a terrible, unacceptable user interface. It may also be some special application that succeeds in success, but there is almost no one to use. It is often forced to compete and financial stress, full of new products that are not numbered and almost unused, are prematurely set to the market. In some cases, the product itself is very successful, but the market is not acceptable, so those investment in their companies are prematurely performed before the product is successful in the market. The birthplace of Silicon Valley and other new technologies is because of a special organism that has a bitter fruit that has failed. This is the team leaders by engineers with powerful technology and innovation, and they lack the sensitivity to the market, especially the consideration of consumer demand. All of these companies are thinking that they have to change the world, and this idea has produced many products that are not needed. Internet bubbles produce a large number of typical typical, such as mist of Pets.com. How do they think someone is willing to pay $ 20 to buy a bag of dog food? Similar to ETOYS, WEBVAN® company, Kosmo, etc. But these mistakes are more unsatisfactory compared to the most terrible disasters in the industry. The following is some examples of some of my individuals that can be listed in the disaster consumer technology product mistakes, which can be used as the former car: IBM's PCJR low-end computer products (IT Waterloo): This is called "IBM" The low-end computer product of peanuts begins. At that time, IBM relied on its IBM business computer to get an incredible success. PCJR has just begun to enter the market. About 1984, the computer was visible everywhere in college. The PCJR computer has a terrible keyboard with only a few keys, and the system lacks scalability, just relying on components to barely add some functions. My university room bought it, just a price of $ 1,000 (at the time of business computer price of $ 5,000), it is terrible. When the era of household computers is finally coming, IBM has no chance to re-win this market. This is the first big mistake in personal computer consumption products, which is likely to rank first. GO handwriting computer products (IT Waterloo 2): The most popular thing in 1992 is Go, which is considered another progress after the personal computer and Windows Windows. It took millions of dollars to develop a new operating system called "niche", running on handwriting, not a keyboard. Unfortunately, this software has too many code errors. Computer hardware configurations also lack sufficient ability to convert handwritten text into characters, and it is too expensive. A disaster with a handwritten computer also appeared in Momenta, with the era, the company spent $ 40 million in 1992 to create a useless portable computer. It can also be a catastrophe and selling and sold by AT & T, a handwritten phone, which is more important than today's laptops. It is worth noting that Microsoft's handwriting products are not very good, although it has always been active in this field. Magic Hat PDA Product (IT Waterloo 3): This self-righteousness should be mentioned earlier, and a cumbersome PDA. It seems to be designed to cater to the governments. The agency company's strategy introduces it into the family and wants to win people's thumbs up. The first is that Apple is in danger of its first product, then AT & T and Sony companies. The latter apparently has more investment funds, and finally launched the product. But this is not a PDA, just a counterfeit alternative to a sound mail system. And ended his history with a large number of errors that cannot be used.
