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hey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with the top 5 tech failures so there are a lot of really great gadgets and there are a lot of not-so-great gadgets so let's take a look at some of those made number 5 we have Windows Vista this launched in 2007 as one of the biggest overhauls to windows ever and took a whopping five years to complete what finally shipped was a version of Windows which had more than a few issues so one of the biggest problems with Vista was the fact that a lot of things just flat-out didn't work anymore so printers were a big thing a lot of printers which worked fine on a Windows XP computer unless they were lucky enough to be updated to work with Vista were flat-out paperweights another was it it was big and bloated so Windows Vista need a much more powerful PC to run on than say XP and just for the record Windows 8 is 6 year old newer operating system actually runs better on older pcs than Vista so yeah it was definitely a step backward to be fair it wasn't all bad after about a year or so Microsoft had a lot of the early issues figured out however that didn't stop them from rushing out Windows 7 which is basically just what Vista should have been at number 4 we have the Google Nexus Q so this was a weird one Google announced the Nexus Q last year as a media player some amount of a competitor to the Apple TV in the Roku and that sort of thing however they already had a competitor in the Google TV so what exactly was the Nexus Q basically it was a bowling ball shaped media streamer that allowed you to watch youtube videos as well as listen to music and watch videos from Google Play and that's about it you had no Netflix no whoo no way to watch your own files nothing just YouTube and Google Play and did I mention it cost $300 so I don't think it takes a genius to realize that the Nexus Q never really got off the ground in fact Google ended up canceling it before it even came out and those few people who had pre-ordered the Nexus Q ended up getting them for free and Google quietly let the whole thing just disappear and number three we have Apple Maps so to understand this one put yourself in Apple shoes ever since the iPhone came out they have been relying on Google to supply Google Maps for the phone however as their new arch enemy they decided that hey we should totally be able to make a new Maps app we can stick it to Google and make something way better at first it looks really cool so they showed up a mode called flyover which basically allows you to fly around cities and a full 3d view pinch zoom all that stuff and then it came out and people realized it was a massive downgrade compared to the old Google Maps there was just a lot of stuff that was flat-out missing and to make things even worse there was no way to downgrade back to using Google Maps as opposed to the new Apple maps to make things even worse some things were just flat-out wrong so one entire town was marked as a hospital and some landmarks just disappeared straight off the map the first time I used it I was meeting a friend for dinner so I punch in the address into Apple maps and it proceeded to send me 20 minutes the wrong way before I realized that it had no idea where I was going oops and number two we had the HTC first after years of rumors the Facebook will be making their own phone earlier this year they finally did it cool right except it kind of wasn't what they actually released was two different things one was Facebook home now this is something that you could download on your Android phone and basically it would fully Facebook a fight and then there was the HTC first which had Facebook home pre-loaded however that was pretty much all it had going for it basically you had the choice of either downloading a free app from the Google Play Store or buying a phone which did the exact same thing clearly a recipe for success after a month on sale they'd sold a mere 15,000 HTC firsts now to give you some context to that during that same time the Samsung Galaxy s4 sold 15,000 phones every hour AT&T wasted no time in slashing the price of the first down to basically free other carriers around the world decided not to carry it and after only a couple months the HTC first was pretty much dead at number one we have the Microsoft Xbox one guys what were you thinking I mean I give it the Xbox one was definitely made to be a very forward-thinking console where the discs really weren't as important is everyone doing download-only kind of like hell Steamworks today however the way they actually executed it the way they talked about it the way they showed it off the way they just launched in general was just a absolute disaster so first they show off the console and then immediately spent the entire rest of the time talking about how it works with TV television television TV television television television television TV TV TV then once they finally showed off some cool games get some people interested they then announced that the price would be $500 $100 more than the PlayStation 4 and then they started going on about how used games work and how you could only trade them in with certain retailers if you want to give a game to a friend you had to be friends with them on Xbox Live for 30 days you always had to have Kinect on it was a bit of a mess the funny thing is all this would have probably blown over after a few months and silly not got up on stage III and said hey guys you know all that stuff Microsoft's doing yeah what I'm gonna be doing that immediately now the Xbox one looks like some horrible travesty of a game console it's got to always be connected that you can't use your own games with it was a nightmare so how does Microsoft respond basically go haha just kidding guys all that stuff we were talking about yeah we're totally not gonna do that you should be like the 360 guys just you know forget all that stuff that we said about me always online and the DRM and these games that we were just joking no big deal overall I think the Xbox one will be a solid console now however taking a look at that launch definitely makes it a massive massive disaster and it takes that in one spot for the biggest tech failure so I'm curious to know what's the biggest tech failure in your opinion definitely be sure to let me know in the comments below also I want to mention that this video is brought to you by audible audible.com is a leading provider of audiobooks with more than 100,000 downloadable titles across all types of literature including fiction nonfiction and periodicals I've always loved to read and lately have really been enjoying using audible on my phone in the car as well as before I go to bed I'll grab my iPad and listen to a chapter or two lately I've been listening to a Fault in Our Stars by John Green a fantastic book that I read last year they've been really listening to if that's a word lately with audible if you guys haven't tried audible yet all you need to do 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