Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Top 5 Most Overhyped Tech!”.
Hey what is up guys mkbhd here and the rumor mill has been in full tilt recently. It’S been in full throttle for a couple of weeks now and with a whole bunch of new rumors coming into existence and a whole bunch of old rumors. Now, finally, being confirmed is true: like the google edition htc one is now true uh. That was the inspiration for today’s video. So today, we’re gon na be taking a look at the top five most over hyped tech products in recent history. Now some products live up to the hype. Hype is not always a bad thing. In fact, hype is often used by marketing companies and marketing advertising agencies to build up some attention to the device or whatever they’re going to be releasing before it’s actually happened. So a lot of commercials will run and a lot of advertising campaigns will begin before they’ve even really started to finalize the details of how it’s going to be released.
So hype is not always a bad thing, and sometimes products get really properly hyped, and that makes them more successful. Some products, though, are just hyped up way too much like they’re hyped up to the point where people start to form strong opinions about them before they even exist yet, and sometimes the rumor mill gets so out of control that it’s just impossible to live up to. That much hype, so these guys aren’t necessarily the biggest flops in tech history, but these guys are just straight up over hyped number. Five is the galaxy nexus.
This one was set up to be the successor to the nexus s and, of course, the next nexus. Every year is really hyped up to be a really important phone in the long chain of google products. So this one was no exception to that rule, but it was particularly hyped up because we got word that there was going to be a curved glass display which there is.
But if you look at some of the sketches and the mock-ups for this phone, they were really curved like very, very curved uh, nothing like what we’re seeing in the actual model, but we heard that it was going to be curved glass. So, of course, the rumor mills went crazy and we got a whole bunch of different mock-ups of this very, very curvy phone and there were a whole bunch of different mock mock-ups, also with on-screen buttons and a whole bunch of different other features. We didn’t really know what it was going to look like, but we also got very very late in the cycle, a bit of a teaser that looked like the side of the nexus. There was also no word of what it was going to be called, so everyone referred to it as the nexus prime, which was interesting, because that was a transformer and anyway, don’t worry about that. But the nexus was ultimately a pretty solid product, not the greatest thing.
That’S ever been made, but it was definitely overhyped. Number four is siri. The long awaited personal virtual assistant from apple now apple tends to get hyped up a whole ton and we’ll see more of that later, but we always tend to assume that apple is ahead of the curve in terms of technology and we kind of sort of imagine Things that are going to happen from apple that we don’t really know how could happen yet. So when we heard there was going to be a virtual assistant and a voice, control and voice activated assistant, we went totally off the rails on the rumor mill. There were some star trek leg rumors going out there and if you read the articles for when siri wasn’t yet a thing, you’ll see a whole bunch of different predictions for what we would see in terms of functionality in siri. Now siri didn’t turn out to be all that bad, but it also wasn’t all that great and we’re expecting to see a whole lot more in ios 7 when siri gets updated again, but in the meantime overhype number three is the zune. Now this one may be really hard to believe, but all you have to do is look back seven years and look at the headlines that were going out and the zune was rumored to be the ipod killer. It was rumored to be that awesome product that was going to take down the oh, so popular apple, ipod.
Now, yes, this was seven years ago, so microsoft, of course, was developing a completely new product to do this, so they had every chance in the world. Theoretically, to do exactly that, but this was a pretty hard flop and the zoom, as we know, was already discontinued on the ipad, seems to be doing just fine. So, quite obviously the zune was pretty overhyped number two is the motorola x phone. Ever since google bought motorola mobility, we have seen everyone try to predict the specs of motorola’s next flagship and they haven’t made one since they’ve been bought by google and because of the incredibly large amount of rumors that we’ve seen about this next product.
We kind of needed a name to call this phone and it was just dubbed the x phone uh and now that’s actually that’s actually the name of it, not even joking, like that’s. What motorola has finally come out and said is the name of this next flagship. Now that could just be a code name just like we kind of code named it the nexus, prime, but uh.
If you look at motorola’s website i’ll include a link in the description. We literally have a couple of paragraphs with every single thing that is confirmed by motorola about the x phone and it really just says it was made in texas, but you can read it yourself. It’S it’s a phone, that’s going to be constructed and put together in the united states, which is a big deal to them, and it’s a big deal to american industry, but yeah. We don’t really know anything yet about the x phone and the rumor mills will continue to continue and number one the number one most over hyped tech product in consumer electronics.
History was probably the easiest to decide and it’s an easy number one pick you may have. Even come up with rumors about this yourself before it existed, it’s the ipad. Everything about the ipad was rumored literally everything from the name. It could have been the isolate it could have been the mac pad. It could have been the i tablet, the apple mac tablet.
There’S so many names about it and everything about the specs and the form factor and the design and what it would be used for and what it would be good for and what it would be bad for and what it could look like and the mock-ups. Oh, my god, the mock-ups you, the mock-ups, were unbelievable. You couldn’t go a week without seeing a new confirmed mock-up about what this ipad or this tablet is going to look like from apple before it exists, because people knew that this was going to be a product category and people knew that apple were developing a tablet. But they had no idea anything other than that.
So that’s all we went off of apple tablet. Well, we already know they have the iphone. We already know that they have the max, so let’s just merge them into each other and make mock-ups about it and call it a rumor. That’S what happened big time.
It has been blogged about for months, if not years, the ultra-secret apple device that, according to some in the industry, is going to change everything. What exactly is it might even make your breakfast? Who knows how about that right? How about that yeah? We don’t know anything. Officially so they’ve created these fake photos of what it might look like. There are people’s imaginings, we don’t know anything officially yet, but we’re calling it the italian. We don’t even know what it would be called. Don’T even know that it’s a tablet isolate. I tablet exactly right very expensive and i think i have some numbers on that: six to eight or nine hundred dollars, people are predicting. You can see what we think.
We know here a ten inch, touchscreen, very thin, apple’s to have to shock and awe with this one so yeah the screen size, the os, the form factor, the name. Everything about this thing was rumored big time and uh. It was still a very successful product.
That’S, i think, something that differentiates the ipad from others. It ended up doing really well, but the ipad was big time over hyped. It couldn’t have possibly been as revolutionary as the news outlets were making it out to be so there you go.
That’S the number one most overhyped tech product shout outs honorable mentions, go to the playstation 3. believe it or not. This was a hugely hyped product when it first went on sale people were buying this thing for 2 000 on ebay. Someone was killed, trying to get a ps3 when it first came out. Okay, so this thing was really really valuable when it first came out, and that is a lot of hype and, to be honest, i think the people who paid two thousand dollars for it probably regret that around now random access, memories, daftpunk’s album. I consider that a tech product – and i consider that very, very hype that was one of the most hyped up music albums i’ve ever seen.
I mean they used a very modern strategy, but yeah that was a really hyped up album and blackberry 10, which was supposed to be the savior for all things, blackberry, and we can see how that turned out either way, thanks for watching. If you enjoyed this quick video, definitely leave a thumbs up below or leave a comment. If you have some other overhyped tech products that i missed. The description below the like button on this video is full of all your links and all your images and silly mock-ups and articles and things like that, and that will hopefully keep you guys entertained, but either way like.
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