Wired’s 10 Most Significant Gadgets of 2010 list contains three Apple products, with iPad rightfully topping the list altogether. Unfortunately, most of the rest of the list is a mess with throwaway products that simply will not stand the test of time.
Wired’s 10 Most Significant Gadgets of 2010:
1. Apple iPad
2. Berkeley Bionics eLEGS
3. Microsoft Kinect
4. Windows Phone 7 on Samsung Focus
5. Sprint Evo 4G
6. Apple iPhone 4
7. MacBook Air
8. Samsung Galaxy Tab
9. Canon S95
10. Kindle 3
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Any list that ranks derivative pretend iPhones above the real thing has severe issues. We’ll pit our iPhone 4s against any and all pretenders and beat them to a pulp everytime; even apps that claim to be the “same” are just plain superior on iPhone.
God knows what they were smoking over at Wired to come up with #8. Have they ever actually tried to use one of those POSes?
We know it’s hard to believe, but a year from now this list will look even more ridiculous.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Gunfighter27” for the heads up.]
iCal this list .. LOL
To be fair, Microsoft has actually managed to “think different” with WP7, so calling it derivative is a little harsh. The iPhone 4 and MacBook Air were evolutions of existing products, making them less “significant”.
This is why I no long read Wired…the last few years they have lost all sense of reality!
WP7……. now that’s funny.
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Wired has become a-frayed.
For argument’s sake, how many of these “POSes” has MDN even tried? If MDN’d spend less time scouring the net for every negative review of Apple’s competitors and actually try them, the credibility of this site may improve. Right now, it’s entertaining like “Fox News”, and just as biased.
@ Ottawa Mark
if any of those POS came close to a apple product, we would all know it. Not just mdn. When the “antennagate” broke out, mdn was just like any other site throwing undeserved crap at apple. I don’t think mdn is biased at all, they just speak the truth. It looks biased because apples stuff is just far superior not most of the time, ALL of the time. When that changes we will all change.
@Ottawa Mark
I don’t know which third world country you hail from – and yes Canada is third world with that RIM jizz – but if you think Android & WP7 are fantabulous you’ve got another thing coming.
Perhaps RIM has skewed your world view as to what a capable smartphone can do rather than the turd that Android rolls around in.
Well at least they don’t have to worry about changing #1 next year!
I believe it would be POS’s, not POSes. Maybe POSieurs too…
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@ Ballmer’s left nut
Lets leave the country/racist crap at home, shall we. Just because RIM is a Canadian company there is no need to be an angry hater.
@Ballmer’s left nut
You are a douchebag. Enough said.
I’m an iPhone and iPad (and iMac and MacBook Pro) user, and agree they’re all superior, but fall short of referring to the competition as POS…there are strengths and weaknesses of all. Except for Blackberries, which just suck (except for security)
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I also believe the list has been taken out of context; it was about “significant” not “best”. That would account for the first real 4G smartphone, and Microsoft’s first half-decent (!!) smartphone, being listed ahead of what was simply a continuance of excellence expected of the iPhone. In many ways the iPhone 4 could only have been truly more significant if it had not maintained Apple’s creative lead.
MDN *is* biased regarding Apple products. But MDN also recognizes and publicly identifies weaknesses in Apple products and poor decisions on the part of Apple management.
Being biased is human. Being close-minded and tunnel-visioned is a handicap that often leads to downfall. We Mac users must maintain the crucial elements of reason and good judgment with respect to Apple and its products.
Well, I love my eLEGS! They let me use my Kinect much better than my regular legs.
Ottawa Mark wins with “In many ways the iPhone 4 could only have been truly more significant if it had not maintained Apple’s creative lead.”
These are SIGNIFICANT gadgets, not wonderful gadgets. If it was a list of wonderful gadgets, the iPhone 4 would be above the Windows Phone 7.
Microsoft worked things out with their hardware partners to put out a largely coherent product is more significant than Apple rolling out its usual genius.
@Ballmer’s Left Nut
Canada is bad? You’re an idiot. Or just jealous.
im not from the US or Canada but having visited both I think canada rules.
Microsoft paid a lot of money to rebrand the Kinect and that nets them third spot?
Microsoft finally designs an OS capable of competing with Apple’s first iPhone four years ago and that deserves fourth spot?
There is an iPhone rip-off that works on a poor G4 network in a few American cities and that deserves fifth spot?
Samsung finally got Android to work on a tablet after seeing how Apple did it first hand and that deserves eighth spot?
Are you seeing the trend yet, you naysayers?
This is balanced reporting in it’s finest hour.
Either that or Wired just got that cash infusion that it needed so badly.
Four gadgets do not belong on this list. Well Kinect belongs, maybe 9th or 10th, with no Microsoft mention.
@ bluejay
I love my country (Canada) but it is about -20c this weekend where I live.
@big als MBP
Samsung got on the list for actually bringing a competitor to the market. Not a good one from the little I played around with it, but nonetheless.
@BurningZeppelin & the rest of the dickheads
Yadda, yadda, yadda…yawn…you’re too boring for words.
Go poo on somebody’s lawn will ya.
your empire is crumbling. weep with the children.
Well, from the looks of it, here at MDN the new year is going to be just like the old year. This site is a knucklehead magnet, and people like Ballmer’s left nut have an iron brain.
What is a POS?