The Ugliest Products in Tech History

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The Ugliest Products in Tech History

#1 Post by ryengineer » Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:11 am

Yesterday's heavenly tools; today's "The Ugliest Products in Tech History".
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#2 Post by dsigma6 » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:00 am

#10- Microsoft Zune

That's the best they could come up with? They got to nine, couldn't think of any more, and saw a Zune sitting on their desk. I'm not a fan of it, but please!
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#3 Post by Puppy » Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:17 pm

What about this one :-)
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#4 Post by ryengineer » Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:01 pm

dsigma6 wrote:snip.......That's the best they could come up with? They got to nine, couldn't think of any more, and saw a Zune sitting on their desk. I'm not a fan of it, but please!
Human psychology prefers shiny, good looking instruments, presently that's also one way to lure majority of people towards shiny and colorful Macbooks, Hp's, Dells etc.

Imagine IBM coming into existence after Apple and claiming it's thinkpad (suppose a big bulky box) to be "Macbook killer" in a well established dominant market of neat, bright and gorgeous looking Macbooks.

Personally, I have never owned neither of those music players; infact not any in my life and probably will never. However if I had to, it would had definitely been an iPod with a Hide-a-Pod Zune box for security purposes.
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With the man who takes me from my horse, and leads me to a bar."
The man who took her off her steed, and stood her to a beer,
Were a bleary-eyed Surveyor and a DRUNKEN ENGINEER.
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#5 Post by Nigellus » Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:30 pm

What's wrong with the acoustic modem? :?
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#6 Post by ThinkPad » Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:07 am

Haha good stuff there
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#7 Post by qviri » Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:09 am

ryengineer wrote:However if I had to, it would had definitely been an iPod with a Hide-a-Pod Zune box for security purposes.
Is iPod theft really that big of an issue?
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