“The highs were pretty high in the tech world in 2011, as new gadgets, updates and advances delighted the masses,” Doug Gross reports for CNN. “I mean, Facebook made a change that most people (so far) seemed to actually like. What are the odds?”
“But the lows were lower. For every moment of digital bliss, it seemed, there was a clunker of equal or greater magnitude,” Gross reports. “In fairness, some of these “Doh!” moments came from folks who had otherwise good years. And nobody, not even perennial tech darling Apple, is perfect.”
CNN’s 2011 Tech Fails of the Year:
• Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner’s (D-NY) weiner on Twitter
• Go Daddy’s SOPA misstep
• ‘Duke Nukem Forever’
• The other tablets[iPad wannabes – MDN Ed.]
• Game off at Sony’s PlayStation Network
• iPhones and bars don’t mix (lost iPhone 4S prototype)
• Netflix-Qwikster
• PayPal plays Scrooge
• iPhone 4S battery life (“We’ll call this a modest ‘fail’ wrapped inside an epic win,” Gross writes. “The battery gripes didn’t stop Apple from selling an iLoad of the new phones.”)[We never did see it on any of our units running any version of iOS 5 beta or otherwise. – MDN Ed.]
• Research in Motion hemorrhaging share and continent-wide outages
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]