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hey guys this is Austin there's been a lot of bad tech over the years but this might just be some of the worst kicking things off is the Microsoft Kin this was a weird one it all started when Microsoft bought the makers of the site everybody needs a sidekick they've been invested over a billion dollars into developing the Ken line which didn't exactly do well the entire project did so poorly that it was cancelled within two months but why was it so bad my friend Ralphie and I decided to find out nice this is the Microsoft Ken first of all that screen is tiny we compare it to a modern smartphone that uh that's tiny but of course we have the fiscal keep do you have a physical keyboard and iPhone I actually don't this is a run Android so on the back Windows Phone oh that is a thing right there I mean there's no support for normal apps on that right side Android so no there are no apps at all period here as was essentially a feature phone the Ken was nearly as expensive as a smart phone and with competition like the iPhone and the original Samsung Galaxy it was no surprise that it flopped so badly worst of all less than a year after launch the Ken site shut down making it even less useful by removing the social features ending one of the biggest failures in modern tech another phone that was a pretty spectacular flop was the Amazon fire phone launched in 2014 after years of rumors the Amazon was working on a phone the fire came out to quite a bit of height this is still in the rack so basically all four of the cameras around the edges are all about being able to track your face hey man you got the octopus on you men run so the crazy thing about the fire phone was it started at a $650 Howard by the time they were discontinuing it it was a $160 and that included a free year of Amazon Prime which was worth 100 bucks I think one of the big problems with the Amazon fire phone was it it ran fire OS that is a version of Android but if you look through here it looks almost nothing like well traditional Android surprise surprise the fire phone didn't sell well it atleast stayed on sale for a year but it was an ATT exclusive at first and Amazon had to write off at least a hundred and seventy billion dollars on the project next up we've got the blackberry playbook this was an interesting one launched in 2011 a year after the first iPad it actually had a lot of features that were an improvement real multitasking and respectable Hardware helped the PlayBook to actually be fairly decent but starting at $500 it was absolutely not a finished product to the launch you're boxing right now is a product that is over five years old oh we see that trickshot D yeah this actually is a nice piece of art where you have dual front-facing speakers it's kind of got a nice sort of finish on the back I remember actually when this first came out I was at CES I actually did a video on the playbook and I was pretty excited this thing looked really cool I think it was so hard to compete with the iPad and I know they spend a lot of my developing this especially the software I don't think BlackBerry ever really fully recovered after a series of price drops and software updates the PlayBook ended up selling decently but it still was canceled and Blackberry wrote off nearly half a billion dollars just to clear the inventory that was sitting on store shelves anyway what's on your shirt oh it's pretty mention that that's the brand new Austin eken shirt available for a limited time on teespring get it now before it disappears they might run away from like a poll on go oh I see we're like yeah you might wanna call you might want to give the shirt a raspberry for real oh if you guys wanna check out this shirt link will be in the description and something else you guys you can check out is a video I did over on Ralphie's channel where we checked out some of those hot new poking hands I love those poking here guys thank you so much for watching and I will catch you in the next one hey guys so you should buy my new t-shirt it's really good