• Dessalines@lemmy.ml
    3·
    3 years ago

    Google glass, these spying eyeglasses that google made a huge push for back in like 2015. Turns out even then nobody wanted google spying on everything they can see, and going out in public looking like a hailcorporate tool.

    • morrowind@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 years ago

      That was less so because of the privacy issues and more because they were very experimental but google billed them as viable. If google had stuck to it and fixed the issues I would argue they would be a bit of a thing today.

    • ttmrichter@lemmy.ml
      21·
      3 years ago

      Please specify which “crypto”?

      Cryptography is doing just fine, thank you very much. I presume you meant “cryptocurrency” here?

      • roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml
        11·
        2 years ago

        Bitcoin should have led to global currency reform, for a start. That failed. It could still lead to energy reform and other important societal progress. But regulation and other factors are killing it.

        • ttmrichter@lemmy.ml
          2·
          2 years ago

          Bitcoin and its alternatives could never have been a currency. It’s eminently unsuited to that role. (It’s great for Ponzi schemes, extortion schemes, and other criminal enterprises mind.) And how does “using more energy than a medium-sized nation while doing three orders of magnitude fewer transactions than even ONE payment processor” translate to “energy reform”?

          Please, dude, stop being a cryptobro. It’s a really bad look.

          • roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml
            1·
            2 years ago

            I’ve spent too much time explaining currency theory to purple who aren’t really interested. So if you have a specific question I can answer it. But not many questions and not a debate.

  • TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 years ago
    • Ubuntu Touch, unfortunately. Though UBports is keeping it going.
    • Vidme and Vlare, which were both potential alternatives to YouTube but were shut down due to lack of funding.
    • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 years ago

      Vidme and Vlare, which were both potential alternatives to YouTube but were shut down due to lack of funding.

      This starts to make sense when you realize that YouTube was confirmed to NOT be making a making a profit as late as 2015, and potentially still isn’t. Apparently, having a profitable video streaming business is just hard. The only reason that Google can do it is because they’re rich AF and can afford to do the shotgun method of continuing to operate it at a loss for a long time and hope it becomes profitable eventually.

  • YouLookGraphics@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 years ago

    Oh god, where do I even start?

    • VidMe and Vlare.
    • Vanillo.
    • 3D TV’s.
    • Onecoin.
    • XML.
    • Ubuntu Touch.
    • OS/2 WARP. (unfortunately.)
    • Mir and Unity. Not the game engine.
    • PeerTube.
    • Foldable smartphones.
    • Virtual assistants.
    • Dual-screen smartphones.
    • Ruqqus.
    • Zune.
    • Windows Phone.
    • Firefox OS.
    • Silverlight.
    • Tru64.
    • Theranos.
    • ZTE Hawkeye.
    • PlayStation Home.
    • There.
    • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 years ago

      To be fair, at least Theranos and Onecoin were outright scams. They were never intended to be the next big thing so much a get even richer quick scheme.

      Also, why XML? It’s used everywhere.

    • morrowind@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 years ago

      Virtual assistants weren’t as big as expected, but I wouldn’t say they flopped.

      Also, peertube, foldable smartphones, linux mobile (ubuntu touch might be an exception) are all still in early stages, its a bit early to say they flopped.

    • abbenm@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 years ago

      Huh? Peertube is probably the second strongest activitypub based project after Mastodon, at least going by fediverse stats.

      Youtube and Twitter are bigger, but I think the fediverse is a long term project, and organic, active and growing userbase, meeting real use cases, attracting development all while fulfilling an underlying vision are the criteria for success, and I think it’s pretty good on those measures.

  • Bloodwrych@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 years ago

    One could arguably say the PC game “Star Citizen”. A decade later and close to half a billion raised and still nowhere near completion

  • morrowind@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 years ago
    • smartwatches: flopped hard because they couldn’t prove their value over your phone. They’re slowly coming back now as companies see their value lies in a few key things like fitness
    • smart wear (mostly google, as usual)
    • I guess a lot ar / vr stuff was hyped before the tech was really ready and went nowhere
    • and as others have mentioned most stuff related to web3 and blockchain
    • quibi?
  • gun@lemmy.ml
    0·
    3 years ago

    Most if not all of Elon Musks ideas. And that theranos thing that’s been in the news.

      • gun@lemmy.ml
        1·
        3 years ago

        With Elon, it’s easy to give examples, because he could brush his teeth and will claim it’s going to revolutionize everything.
        The hyperloop proposed 10 years ago was supposed to revolutionize transportation and get you between SF and LA in an hour. It’s totally dead in the water now.

          • gun@lemmy.ml
            0·
            3 years ago

            The top speed recorded is 288 mph and hasn’t been beaten in 3 years. This isn’t even faster than the fastest train at 374 mph which doesn’t need vacuum tubes. Considering that hyperloop is just a fast train in a vacuum to make it go even faster, you’d expect it to at least beat trains after 10 years of work. So you tell me.

            • X51@lemmy.ml
              0·
              3 years ago

              I think it’s supposed to be more efficient, not just fast. I worked with a guy who helped design Maglev trains for China. With my limited knowledge, I’d think that a train floating above a track with no friction and being propelled by a magnetic wave has more potential that a train in a tube. I’m not familiar with the power and technology it takes to create that magnetic wave, but I still think it has more potential. I should have asked how the wave was created, but I was too amazed that the technology even existed.

              • gun@lemmy.ml
                2·
                3 years ago

                Idk, I think any argument that hyperloop is more energy efficient goes out the window when you consider the energy costs of having to keep depressurized a 500 mile long tube.

        • morrowind@lemmy.ml
          0·
          3 years ago

          The hyperloop is odd actually. Musk didn’t actually want to do it, he just tweeted out some random thing as a reaction to the price of California’s high speed rail proposal, but at that point his fanbase was used to him just doing crazy things so they piled on him. That’s why he set up that competition, to see if it was viable.

          Source: his biography

          Besides, that it doesn’t matter if musk just claims something, anyone can claim something. Anything he’s gotten behind has succeeded.

            • morrowind@lemmy.ml
              1·
              2 years ago

              Musk didn’t own twitter when I made that comment. Twitter has revealed how bad he’s gotten. I don’t think my comment applies anymore.

    • Kohen Shaw@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 years ago

      It’s so annoying because the tech behind it all is cool. But no, ppl are just gambling with it.

    • morrowind@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 years ago

      Web3 was never anything at all. Just a buzzword. Ask people to actually describe what web3 is. Nobody can name anything specific that would be an improvement.

  • aeroplain@lemmy.ml
    0·
    3 years ago

    IPFS?

    It’s been years, and it’s still as slow and unreliable as a when I first heard of it.