Tech Product Failure
Comments analyze why a specific tech product or startup failed to succeed commercially, debating factors like poor execution, insufficient market demand, premature abandonment, funding shortages, and comparisons to past flops such as Fire Phone, Juicero, and Segway.
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Sounds like failed experiment. It's not too late to give it up. They should stick to making exciting hardware.
Looks like they were going after a solid market but failed to execute. This happens all the time. Pity though, could have been a great company and product.
Would you mind sharing some of the reasons why it didn't end up taking off?
Judging by the fact the thing never made it into any other devices, I'd posit it's no runaway success.
Maybe it is because they failed to make something people want badly enough.
people also said the juicero and the smart condom would never take off. this isnt a very useful gotcha
I wouldn't say they failed. I'd say they gave up on it before product maturity.
Hasn't this been tried multiple times already by other vendors? It's a cool idea, but I'm not sure why this will succeed where other attempts failed.
They did and failed spectacularly. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Phone
I don't even think the product is bad...they just haven't been able to discover a successful business model.