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2013 brought us a ton of awesome technology but also ushering a few things that didn't quite live up to expectations or failed so this is the list of the top 10 blunders of 2013 let's start with number 10 the HP Chromebook 11 it looked like there's going to be an awesome choice for those don't wanted a low-cost laptop but then things started catching fire how to get recalled didn't quite live up to HP's 4-ranked the Chromebook world coming in at number 9 the Samsung Galaxy gear it looked like it was three pretty awesome the first device that was really going to be that first wearable watch that everybody needed to have but it was really hampered by poor battery life it's crazy expensive and launched with really no device support other than the Galaxy Note 3 and not to mention that awful commercial we used it we tested it and we just didn't like it number 7 the iphone 5c we like the phone the phone was solid but it's really been hampered by poor sales especially compared to the gang busters iphone 5s last generation spec you can make it really hard to last a full two years iphone 5c well probably a decent phone was not one of the best products of last year at number seven I know I'm gonna get some flack for this Amazon's prime air drone service it was nothing more than a brilliant marketing ploy around black friday can be filmed in the US because it's super not legal it is never going to happen I despite how much i like it to happen but i just think it got people's expectations really set for drones delivering products and they're going to be very disappointed number six this is one that affected me and probably a lot of you to target lost 40 million credit card numbers in a hack and that is quite a few especially on the holiday season we're all shopping at Target and now I kind of forgot to change all my passwords number five this one was all the news toward the middle of the year the NSA's prism is spying on us all the big tech companies was revealed we're giving our information to the government this prism named never been heard it's right everybody realized all at once Wow the government knows a lot about us more than we'd like them to so be sure to clear your search history number for Microsoft's back step on the Xbox one was first announced it had a ton of features that people were not happy about a Microsoft backtrack incredibly fast on things like no use game or game shared restrictions no internet connection required and no connect required to name a few number three Samsung's Galaxy s4 active that wasn't that waterproof it was marketed as for the one device you could take everywhere with you won't life not getting away it can go on the water you know could go in the sand and it could really take a lickin and keep on making its phone calls turns out though it was this waterproofs people thought and they ran into a ton of issues with it still a great phone but I wouldn't take it to the beach with me number two Microsoft's crazy Steve Jobs s commercial this was done in a really poor taste to try and push a surface commercial essentially Microsoft had a guy that looked like Steve Jobs from the back talking about the surface tablets and it just just didn't translate very well at all it's sort of struck as disingenuous and really not honoring near the memory of one of the Titans who passed a few years back and for me the biggest tech blunder of the year might not be one you think but affecting me quite a bit Twitter tries to turn off blocking and that backfired in four hours was an incredible misfire I'm Twitter's front and they've done a pretty good job they've had a pretty good year wrapping out of block people especially when you've got a lot of followers or someone that's gonna leave you know incredibly racist or homophobic stuff was a really big deal happy to see the Twitter reverse their decision the same day that they made it so I know some of those things you guys are going to disagree with I can already hear people complaining about the you know Amazon air or some other things never I love to know why you disagreeing what you think the biggest tech blunders of the year where I would love to hear your thoughts because of that in the comments right down below if you do thumbs up what's up we appreciate it until next time i'm jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo with you guys best and 2014 what's up everyone john here thank you for watching the video if you enjoyed it I certainly hope you did click on the subscribe button right under in my pants region to get tons more tech videos from technobuffalo we've got awesome unboxings comparisons reviews recaps and everything else you can think of in the tech world right here on the channel join the art today if you want to check out some more content just click right over this way to see some other recent videos see you guys next time