Most anticipated tech products for 2013

**TeaBoy** · 12-26-2012, 01:33 AM

3. Blackberry 10
Much to the dismay of Blackberry fans, the promised 2012 release never happened. This earned them a place on our 2012 Technology Flops piece.

Research in Motion (RIM), the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, plans to unveil the new BlackBerry 10 operating system in January. That is (hopefully) good news for a company that recently sacked hundreds of employees and lost contracts with the US government over security and reliability issues with RIM products.

RIM has fallen from one of the largest smartphone makers in the world to trailing behind Apple and Android products. The Blackberry 10 is a make or break product for the company. So far, early reports are positive. The new browser is allegedly faster than anything on the market and a QWERTY keyboard version is said to be available soon after the touch screen version is launched.

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**GTiLeo** · 12-26-2012, 02:42 AM

i still can't understand why a product that was not released is a flop, really makes no sense even if the reason to say it was a flop was because it didn't get released. its just a filler spot and a place to further criticize RIM

**trsbbs** · 12-26-2012, 06:48 AM

Originally Posted by GTiLeo

i still can't understand why a product that was not released is a flop, really makes no sense even if the reason to say it was a flop was because it didn't get released. its just a filler spot and a place to further criticize RIM

Sorry you do not understand. Find an English teacher at the local grade school and have her explain it to you.

Tim

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**Skeevecr** · 12-26-2012, 06:51 AM

Flop would tend to imply something that happened and failed in 2012 rather than something that did not happen at all in 2012 though which would simply be a failure.

**pantlesspenguin** · 12-26-2012, 08:09 AM

IMO I think they're saying that the RELEASE was a flop since it never happened. They were planning on an October 2012 release. That time came and went with no BB10. That was the flop, not the product itself.

**Toodeurep** · 12-26-2012, 08:27 AM

As long as it isn't on the "flop" list in 2013 it'll be okay.

**GTiLeo** · 12-26-2012, 08:35 AM

Originally Posted by trsbbs

Sorry you do not understand. Find an English teacher at the local grade school and have her explain it to you.

Tim

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flop

/fläp/
Verb
Fall, move, or hang in a heavy, loose, and ungainly way: "black hair flopped across his forehead".
Noun
A heavy, loose, and ungainly movement, or a sound made by it: "they hit the ground with a flop".
Synonyms
verb.
fail
noun.
failure - washout - miscarriage - fiasco

here you ****ing ***hole, a definition og the meaning of flop. a fail a wash out, how the **** can something fail that hasn't yet met the public eye to even have failed.

pantless i get that the mean the launch failed but to claim the technology has failed is un true because it has yet to be released to have that ability to fail, if the list was called biggest launch flops of 2012 then i can say ok, but to put it on a list of actual product fails, then no

**cjcampbell** · 12-26-2012, 08:44 AM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but since when did the government agencies say that they were trying other platforms due to security issues??

**GTiLeo** · 12-26-2012, 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by cjcampbell

Correct me if I'm wrong, but since when did the government agencies say that they were trying other platforms due to security issues??

they didn't

**r0v3rT3N** · 12-26-2012, 11:26 AM

Wait, wait, wait...
Didn't Yahoo also say BlackBerry 10 was the biggest tech flop of 2012, now it's one of the most anticipated of 2013?
Make up your mind Yahoo!

**Masahiro** · 12-26-2012, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by r0v3rT3N

Wait, wait, wait...
Didn't Yahoo also say BlackBerry 10 was the biggest tech flop of 2012, now it's one of the most anticipated of 2013?
Make up your mind Yahoo!

Yeah, I really wouldn't pay any attention to what Yahoo! says or does.

Also, calling a "miscarriage" a "flop" just seems wrong to me... Haha.

**d3ac0n** · 12-26-2012, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by GTiLeo

here you ****ing ***hole, a definition og the meaning of flop. a fail a wash out, how the **** can something fail that hasn't yet met the public eye to even have failed.

pantless i get that the mean the launch failed but to claim the technology has failed is un true because it has yet to be released to have that ability to fail, if the list was called biggest launch flops of 2012 then i can say ok, but to put it on a list of actual product fails, then no

Failure to release. That's a fiasco

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