Some of the article is just clickbait driven nostalgia, to be honest, but nonetheless, I still have some thoughts about these.
Google Glasses failed because the price was completely wrong, and the technology came way too early.
No comment on the Newton. I’ve never looked into it.
The real reason Vista failed is because it was mass-deployed on machines that were branded as Vista ready, while failing to meet minimum requirements. This is both Microsoft’s fault, and a fault of each vendor who did that.
Zune was awesome, but good luck competing with Apple. They would sell you gold-plated flipflops if they could, and Microsoft’s leadership couldn’t convince you to buy anything with their best efforts.
The Blackberry got what it deserved, for sure.
I still don’t understand Ping
The N-Gage was a great idea with horrible execution, especially considering where the speaker was, on both of these phones. I kinda wanted the QD but way better stuff came out shortly after. The spirit definitely lived on, with the one-off Sony Ericsson PSP phone
The Nintendo VB is just something remarkably stupid
The HP pad is yet another example of companies pushing out e-waste just to pretend they’re competitive with the market leader
Note 7 is a prime example of pushing out hardware without looking at potential edge-cases with catastrophic issues, and hoping those would just never happen