Flashback

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Not all tech products succeed once on the market, and some are killed off with little warning. Flashback looked back at failed tech products to see what we can learn by studying their demises. Hosted ... more

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The podcast currently has 26 episodes available.

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April 09, 20205: Three Failed Game Consoles
On this episode, Quinn and Stephen explore three failed game consoles: the Apple Pippin, Nintendo Virtual Boy and the Ouya.
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Links and Show Notes: Flashback on Apple Podcasts Flashback (@_flashbackfm) / Twitter On the Apple PiPP!N – 512 Pixels Apple Made a Game Console! - Snazzy Labs on YouTube Pippin: Apple's Forgotten Game Console - 512 Pixels on YouTube Apple iPod Touch "The Funnest iPod Ever" TV Ad - YouTube AppleJack Controller The Boomerang PlayStation 3 Controller: What Might Have Been - IGN Katz Media Player 2000 | Pippin @World & Atmark Wiki | Fandom Unraveling The Enigma Of Nintendo’s Virtual Boy, 20 Years Later - Fast Company Nintendo’s FAILURE - Virtual Boy 3D Gaming Console - LTT on YouTube Nintendo Counts on a New 'Virtual' Game - The New York Times OUYA: A New Kind of Video Game Console by OUYA — Kickstarter Ouya Teardown - iFixit Julie Uhrman & Josh Topolsky Keynote | Interactive 2013 | SXSW - YouTube As the Ouya ships to backers, can a $99 console bring players and developers together? - The Verge Ouya review: can an indie console take on Sony and Microsoft? - The Verge Ouya Developers Reveal Modest Sales - IGN Razer confirms Ouya purchase in bid to take over Android TV gaming - The Verge Ouya will be shut down for good on June 25th - The Verge Razer Forge TV - Android™ Gaming in Your Living Room Is the Wii Mini Worth It? - A Young Austin Evans on YouTube Wii mini | Nintendo
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58min
March 26, 20204: webOS
With its webOS hardware, including the Pre, Pixi and more, Palm (and later HP) tried to take on the giants of the early smartphone wars. While webOS was hugely innovative, it wasn't enough to break into the most important market in consumer electronics.
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Links and Show Notes: GEOS (16-bit operating system) - Wikipedia Graffiti (Palm OS) - Wikipedia Zoomer-List Archives: Graffiti Arrives! Palm OS - Wikipedia Apple Reinvents the Phone with iPhone - Apple Dear Palm: It's time for an intervention | Engadget Palm Pre CES Press Event - YouTube What happened to the original iPhone’s plastic screen? - The Verge Stephen's Thumb on the Pre Keyboard Palm Pre review, part 1: Hardware, webOS, user interface | Engadget Palm Pre review, part 2: Synergy, phone, media, applications | Engadget Palm Pre review, part 3: Data speeds, backup, battery, Bluetooth, pricing, wrap-up | Engadget Palm Pre Teardown - iFixit Palm Touchstone Charger Teardown - iFixit Palm Pre Admaker Defends "Creepy" TV Commercial | WIRED Palm Pre Commercial Ad Going With The Flow Tamara Hope - YouTube Meta-tap (Gesture Area + tap) and Copy/Paste | webOS Nation Daring Fireball: Apple Announces Web Apps for iPhone HP TouchPad coming June, webOS for PC beta by year's end | Engadget Palm Pixi review | Engadget Palm Pre Plus (and Pixi Plus) review | Engadget webOS 1.4 Lands on Verizon Review: Verizon Palm Pre 2 | webOS Nation Quinn's Zune Video Palm Pre 3 Demonstration - YouTube Pre 3 for AT&T review | Engadget HP Veer 4G review | Engadget The Long-Lived iPad 2 - MacStories HP TouchPad review | Engadget Quinn Nelson on Instagram: “Everyone (especially HP), blatantly copies Apple's packaging. ” The HP TouchPad 1.0 – Shawn Blanc HP TouchPad: The final $99 offer - CNET How I got a $99 HP TouchPad tablet and why I bought it - The Washington Post Quinn Nelson on Instagram: “I'm pretty sure I got the only one left in my city.” Quinn Nelson on Instagram: “Installing Android on my TouchPad. :D” Quinn Nelson on Instagram: “Hai there Android. :)” Quinn Nelson on Instagram: “ICS on the TouchPad? Love it!” Palm puts itself up for sale | Engadget Hewlett-Packard Agrees to Buy Palm - The New York Times Editorial: Engadget on the death of HP's webOS devices | Engadget The lost secrets of webOS | The Verge LG Smart TV w/ webOS A failed experiment: How LG screwed up its webOS acquisition – Gigaom LG’s Linux-based webOS Goes Open Source, Again! - It's FOSS The new Palm is a tiny phone to keep you away from your phone - The Verge
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1h 14min
March 12, 20203: The GM EV1
Electric cars may seem like 21st century tech, but they are far from modern invention. Along the winding path to the present was the GM EV1, the first purpose-designed electric vehicle. It went on sale in 1996, but were all crushed within 10 years.
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Links and Show Notes: General Motors EV1 Overview - YouTube 1997 General Motors EV1 Electric Coupe - The Henry Ford GM EV1 History - Business Insider 1925 Doble E-20 Steam Car - Jay Leno's Garage - YouTube AMC's Electric Car Announcement The Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle GM Heritage Center Collection | GM Vehicle Technologies and the Path to Success World Solar Challenge 2019 Sunraycer - Wikipedia Here's a Trip Through the GM EV1 Owner's Manual - YouTube MotorWeek | Retro Review: 1997 GM EV 1 - YouTube GM EV1 "Appliances" Ad - YouTube GM EV1 "The Future of the Car" Ad - YouTube The Death of the EV-1 | Science | Smithsonian Magazine EV1 - Driving it the final week before the crusher - YouTube GM EV1 Funeral (Part 1) - YouTube Drivers Find Outlet for Grief Over EV1s - Los Angeles Times As 2011 Chevrolet Volt Nears Dealers, Ghostly EV1 Gets Enthusiasts Excited There's an Ultra-Rare GM EV1 Abandoned in an Atlanta Parking Garage - The Drive GM's EV1 Lives On, With EV2 on the Way | PluginCars.com The EV1 – Wisconsin Hybrid Vehicle The General Motors EV-1: A Rare Survivor, in Ohio! - YouTube Own a Piece of GM EV1 Electric-Car History—Literally Quinn's 1-year review of his Tesla Model 3 Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006) - IMDb General Motors announces new battery platform, claims $100/kWh soon | Ars Technica
GM announced it's getting back into electric cars after the recording of this episode.
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1h 4min
February 27, 20202: The Microsoft Zune
In the 2000s, the iPod was a true juggernaut, simply dominating the portable music player market. Microsoft wanted a piece of the pie, and launched the Zune 30, which eventually spread into a line of both hardware products and software services.
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Links and Show Notes: iPod introduction (23 Oct 2001) - YouTube History of the iPod mini - YouTube The iPod Nano Introduction - YouTube iRiver Zune 30 - Wikipedia Universal Music get fee for every Zune sold | Engadget Labels hit back at Apple, now want share of iPod revenues | Engadget iTunes Price Changes Take Effect | Billboard Zune review | Engadget Microsoft Counting on a Twist to Make Zune Shine in Shadow of iPod - The New York Times Zune review - CNET Microsoft Zune | Ars Technica Microsoft Brings Zune HD Support to the Mac – The Mac Observer Zune 80 review | Ars Technica Wired Decides: Zune or iPod This Holiday Season? | WIRED Microsoft surpasses 2 million Zunes sold. Apple sells 3.53 million iPods a month | VentureBeat Microsoft Announces the Expansion of the Zune Entertainment Service to New Platform and Markets; Confirms New Zune HD Portable Media Player - Stories Pollux Automatically Cleans and Tags Your iTunes Library Zune HD review | Engadget Zune HD review: Zune HD - CNET Metro (design language) - Wikipedia I Used a Windows Phone for a Week in 2018! I Will Miss It. - YouTube Microsoft’s Zune Delivers Connected Music and Entertainment Experience - Stories R.I.P. Microsoft Zune, 2006-2011 | TechCrunch The Zune Is Dead. Here's What to Do With Your Old One | WIRED Zune Subreddit Zune Update Zune Update - ARTWORK Microsoft's $1 Billion Failure - Snazzy Labs - YouTube
Quinn's video on the Zune, published after this episode.
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52min
February 11, 20201: The Newton
Today, Apple is well known for its mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad, but in the 1990s, the Macintosh-only company invented the Personal Digital Assistant. However, after five short years, the whole Newton line was cancelled.
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Links and Show Notes: Knowledge Navigator (1987) Apple Computer - YouTube Graffiti (Palm OS) - Wikipedia The Story Behind Apple's Newton - Gizmodo Let Newton Assist You, Says Apple | The Seattle Times Watch Apple reveal the Newton’s wonders—mobile faxing!—in 1993 Your World, Your Newton - '90s Apple Promo Video - YouTube The Simpsons' 'Eat Up Martha' was the first autocorrect fail - CNET The Simpsons - Eat Up Martha - YouTube A Guide to the Apple Newton – 512 Pixels My Great New Writing Machine: A Newton eMate 300 | Low End Mac Today in Apple history: Newton spins off as its own company | Cult of Mac Remembering the Apple Newton’s Prophetic Failure and Lasting Impact | WIRED Newton May Rise Again | WIRED An Oral History of Apple's Infinite Loop | WIRED The Newtonians: Worldwide Cult Ditches iPhone for Apple's Distant Past | WIRED Newton Year 2010 Problem Getting Things Done Grant Hutchinson’s Newton Web Server Worldwide Newton Conference Love Notes to Newton (Feature Documentary) – Moosefuel Media An Interview with Noah Leon, the Creator Behind the ‘Love Notes to Newton’ Film Project – 512 Pixels The Story Behind Apple’s Newton | Low End Mac Remembering the Apple Newton’s Prophetic Failure and Lasting Impact | WIRED Einstein: NewtonOS running on other operating systems - GitHub
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43min
February 11, 2020 0: Introduction
On this season of Flashback, we’ll be looking at examples of failed tech products or companies.
Links and Show Notes: Quinn Nelson (@SnazzyQ) | Twitter Snazzy Labs - YouTube Stephen Hackett (@ismh) | Twitter 512 Pixels 512 Pixels - YouTube
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3min

FAQs about Flashback:

How many episodes does Flashback have?

The podcast currently has 26 episodes available.