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I've seen a lot of tech services and products that became popular but have very little use for it and here is my list.
1. iPad - The first truly mostly useless tech that most people use it just to show that they have an iPad. Look at me mom, I'm typing an email to a friend, 10 minutes later they are finish typing the 5 sentence with the iPad signature on the email to make sure they are cool. I also see people going to the gym and lifting weights and listening to music on them. I'm dead serious. Remember seeing those hot girls taking a picture in front of the mirror with a cooking pan? It's not a pan, it's an iPad. They do have some use like presentation to clients but that's mostly it. A laptop can do the job just as good but with a lot of features like a real keyboard. I did see someone watch movies on their iPad in a room that has a 55 inch HDTV that is not turn on. Most people buy it because of style and saying that I'm rich.
2. Twitter - The SMS for the web. 125 characters per message of useless crap. People following 1000s and no one reads most of them. Fake accounts made by bots to help people get twitter follower for business mostly. It does not add anything to a business but for the owner or sells man to tell consumers that I have 1000s of followers, so that I'm important. I don't can't that your watching tv or what your thinking about at this moment. I just don't care about some random jackass. Your not important and no one cares about you. Also Twitter has not yet made any money but people still invest in this company.
3. HDTV 3D / 3D Film - 3D Film has been out since 1915 but did become popular until the 1950s. You know the Red and Blue plastic glasses. 3D film fade away until the 1980s and 1900s when it became somewhat popular again. IMAX was the company that started to make better 3D tech but was still on the low end effect. Late 2000s was were the 3D film got really good and movies are being film in 3D instead of the standard filming then post-production would add the 3D effect. But still 3D really add anything to the movie itself and in fact a lot of the time it made it worst because of sense that really didn't need a bullet coming at you. When it came to tv and 3D it was not really a big thing that people wanted but TV makers would add it just to add more money to the price of the HDTV. Glasses are overprice and some needs batteries to work. If you ask most people, they request HDTV 3D but never use it when they install it at their home.
4. Xbox 360 Kinect - Microsoft was behind when it came to thinking out of the box and it was an counter reaction to the Wii remote. Wii was out selling Xbox 360 and Microsoft needed to get the causal and/or younger gamers to Xbox 360. A lot of people bought the Wii for the motion remote when playing Wii Sports. The problem with the Wii was that most people didnt use the system that much and it was a fade. Same goes with the Kinect. It sold over 8 million units and most of the games are not really good. Controlling the Xbox UI is not easy and it takes a lot longer to get around then a remote or the controller. It was more of a gimme it then anything else.
5. Monster's Beats - Monster was first known to make really expensive wire input. You know the one that says Gold plated and charge $120 for them. But now they have been in the headphone for many years. Good headphones but for some of them can range from $99 to $399. Even though Monster and Beats are not partners anymore I still pull them in the same class. The ONLY reason people guy them because it has Dr Dre name to them. Which is one of the reason why you see a lot of black people wearing them. Great marketing is what Beats is good with!
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(This is written by, yes, a Beats user, but also a Marshall and Sennheiser user).
