Top Seven Epic Fails
Sometimes a company has a great product and just fails to market it correctly. Sometimes a company invests too much money into marketing a crappy product. And most of the time, companies fail to recognize what customers really want. Below is a list of Epic Fails by companies we all know and love (or, at least, used to love).
- 7. IBM’s PC Junior
- A home computer twice the price of a Commodore?! Sign me up. At least Charlie Chaplin promoted it. Watch the commercial.
- 6. Commodore
- The Commodore 64 was a great computer. And perhaps there would be a successful line of them if Commodore hadn’t created the Commodore plus/4, a system that was incompatible with the cherished C64, which had a large, established software library.
- 5. Apple’s OS9
- Reboot.
- 4. Apple III
- A board that overheated. System-crippling software. Poor quality overall. At least it looked nice?
- 3. Apple’s “Lisa”
- A bad commercial campaign plus a terrible product name equals a quickly discontinued product. Watch the commercial.
- 2. Real Network
- Still a big player in the media-streaming business, but not so big when you consider they passed up on the iPod at its infancy. It only makes a fraction of what just iTunes makes.
- 1. Yahoo!
- Yahoo! failed to recognize Facebook as the force it is today. When asked to make cuts due to some bad financial returns, Yahoo! cut its offer to Facebook by $200 million. Facebook balked, and Yahoo! continues to struggle without that cash cow. Yahoo!’s status update reads: “:-)”.
