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Miguel Carrasco has written an interesting entry on his blog with his list of what he considers the biggest computer flops of all time. Here’s his list in short:
So in short:
Apple flops - 3
Microsoft flops - 2
IBM flops - 2
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10 Responses for "Top 10 Computer Flops of all time"
October 22nd, 2006 at 12:19 pm
1Steve Jobs flops: 3 (not the same three as the Apple flops).
:)
October 22nd, 2006 at 1:11 pm
2True, true :)
October 22nd, 2006 at 3:42 pm
3I have windows ME…
:(
October 22nd, 2006 at 5:50 pm
4The more you risk the more you achieve.
October 22nd, 2006 at 6:10 pm
5Julian, ain’t that the truth.
People like to trash others’ faliure
when they have achieved nothing.
October 22nd, 2006 at 6:11 pm
6Lots of NeXT stuff is found in Mac OX X.
So, I won’t think of it as flop.
Success is built upon many failures.
October 24th, 2006 at 9:40 pm
7I’m hesitant to call the the Xerox Alto a flop. It wasn’t commercial successful, but it wasn’t a commercial product, nor was it ever meant to be one. As a testbed for new modes of computing it seems to have done quite well, with the ideas it incorperated being pretty much standard in the computers of today.
I also am a little uncomfortable calling CP/M a flop. Was it really a failure? A loser perhaps, but that is not the same thing. I wouldn’t put it in the same category as the Newton, or NeXT or Lisa. Prior to losing out against Microsoft when Digital Research did not take advantage of IBM’s calling it was the most popular OS for personal computers. I wouldn’t call something a flop simply because it eventually lost a war to its competition. DR-DOS eventually came from, and that offered substantial competition to MS-DOS.
October 29th, 2006 at 8:02 am
8What happened to LINDOWS? I think the fact that they sold it in Walmart and other stores of the like, in addition to me mentioning it without a precedent means it’s a bigger flop than you once thought. :-)
October 29th, 2006 at 8:04 am
9RE: Danny
Alternatively, failure is built upon many successes. :-)
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