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hey what is up guys I'm Kay PhD here and the rumor mill has been in Full Tilt recently it's been in full throttle for a couple of weeks now and with a whole bunch of new rumors coming into existence and a whole bunch of old rumors now finally being confirmed is true like the Google Edition HTC one is now true that was the inspiration for today's video so today we're going to be taking a look at the top 5 most overhyped tech products in recent history now some products live up to the hype hype is not always a bad thing in fact hype is often used by marketing companies and marketing advertising agencies to build up some attention to the device or whatever they're going to be releasing before it's actually happened so a lot of commercials will run and a lot of advertising campaigns will begin before they've even really started to finalize the details of how it's going to be released so hype is not always a bad thing and sometimes products get really properly hyped and that makes them more successful some products though are just hyped up way too much like they're hyped up to the point where people start to form strong opinions about them before they even exist yet and sometimes the rumor mill gets so out of control that it's just impossible to live up to that much hype these guys aren't necessarily the biggest flops in tech history but these guys are just straight-up overhyped number 5 is the Galaxy Nexus this one was set up to be the successor to the Nexus S and of course the next Nexus every year is really hyped up to be a really important phone in the long chain of Google products so this one was no exception to that rule but it was particularly hyped up because we got word that there was going to be a curved glass display which there is but if you look at some of the sketches and the mock-ups for this phone they were really curved like very very curved nothing like what we're seeing in the actual model but we heard that it was going to be curved glass so of course the rumor mills went crazy and we got a whole bunch of different mock-ups of this very very curvy phone and there were a whole bunch of different mock-ups also with on-screen buttons and a whole bunch of different other features we didn't really know what it was going to look like but we also got very very late in the cycle a bit of a teaser that looked like the side of the Nexus there was also no word of what it was going to be called so everyone referred to it as the Nexus Prime what was interesting because that was a transformer and anyway you don't worry about that but the Nexus was ultimately a pretty solid product not the greatest thing that's ever been made but it was definitely a right number for is Siri the long-awaited personal virtual assistant from Apple now Apple tends to get hyped up a whole ton and we'll see more of that later but we always tend to assume that Apple is ahead of the curve in terms of technology and we kind of sort of imagine things that are going to happen from Apple that we don't really know how could happen yet so when we heard there was going to be a virtual assistant and a voice-controlled and voice-activated assistant we went totally off the rails on the rumor mill there were some star trek-like rumors going out there and if you read the articles from one seria wasn't yet a thing you'll see a whole bunch of different predictions for what we would see in terms of functionality in Siri now Siri didn't turn out to be all that bad but it also wasn't all that great and we're expecting to see a whole lot more in iOS 7 when Siri gets updated again but in the meantime over hi number three is the Zune and now this wanted to be really hard to believe but all you have to do is look back seven years and look at the headlines that were going out and the Zune was rumored to be the iPod killer it was rumored to be that awesome product that was going to take down the oh so popular Apple iPod now yes this was seven years ago so Microsoft of course was developing a completely new product to do this so they had every chance in the world theoretically to do exactly that but this was a pretty hard flop and the Zune as we know was already discontinued on the iPod seems to be doing just fine so quite obviously the Zune was pretty overhyped number two is the Motorola X phone ever since Google bought Motorola Mobility we have seen everyone try to predict the specs of Motorola's next flagship and they haven't made one sense they've been bought by Google and because of the incredibly large amount of rumors that we've seen about this next product we kind of needed a name to call this phone and it was just dubbed the X phone and now that's actually that's actually the name of it not even joking like that's what Motorola has finally come out and said is the name of this next flagship now that could just be a codename just like we kind of code named it the Nexus Prime but if you look at more roll website I'll include a link in the description we literally have a couple of paragraphs with every single thing that is confirmed by Motorola about the X phone and it really just says it was made in Texas but you can read it yourself it's it's a phone that's going to be constructed and put together in the United States which is a big deal to them and it's a big deal to American industry but yeah we don't really know anything yet about the excellent and the rumor mills will continue to continue and number one the number one most overhyped tech product and consumer electronics history was probably the easiest to decide and it's an easy number one pick you may have even come up with rumors about this yourself before it existed it's the iPad everything about the iPad was rumored literally everything from the name it could have been the isolate it could have been the mac pad it could have been the I tablet the Apple Mac tablet there's so many names about it and everything about the specs and the form factor in the design and what it would be used for and what it would be good for what it would be bad for and what it could look like and the mock-ups oh my god the mock-ups you the mock-ups were unbelievable you couldn't go a week without seeing a new confirmed mock-up about what this iPad or this tablet is going to look like from Apple before it exists because people knew that this is going to be a product category and people knew that Apple we're developing a tablet but they had no idea anything other than that so that's all we went off of Apple tablet oh we already know they have the iPhone we already know that they have the Mac's so let's just merge them into each other and make mock-ups about it and call it a rumor that's what happened big time it has been blogged about for months if not years the ultra-secret Apple device that according to some in the industry is going to change everything what exactly is it might even make your breakfast who knows about that right how about that we don't know anything officially so they've created these fake photos of what it might look like there are people's imaginings we don't know anything officially yet but we're calling it the eyetality we don't even know what it would call don't even have AI slate I travel exactly very expensive and I can't have some numbers on that 6 to 8 or $900 predicting you can see what we think we know here a 10 inch touchscreen very thin the Brattle is gonna have to shock and awe with this one so you have to screen size the OS the form factor the name everything about this thing was rumored big time and it was still a very successful product that's I think something that differentiates the iPad from others it ended up doing really well but the iPad was big-time overhyped it couldn't have possibly been as revolutionary as the news outlets were making it out to be so there you go that's the number one most overhyped a crowd of shoutouts honorable mentions go to the PlayStation 3 believe it or not this was a hugely hyped product when it first went on sale people were buying this thing for two thousand dollars on eBay someone was killed trying to get a ps3 when it first came out okay so this thing was really really valuable when it first came out and that is a lot of hype and to be honest I think the people who paid $2,000 for it probably regret that around now random access memories Daft Punk's album I could say that a tech product and I consider that very very hype that was one of the most hyped up music albums I've ever seen I mean they use a very modern strategy but yeah that was really hyped up album and BlackBerry 10 which was supposed to be the savior for all things blackberry and we can see how that turned out either way thanks for watching if you enjoyed this quick video definitely leave a thumbs up below or leave a comment if you have some other overhyped tech products that I missed the description below the like button on this video is full of all your links and all your images and silly mock-ups and articles and things like that and that will hopefully keep you guys entertained but either way like I said thanks for watching and I will talk to you guys in the next video