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They need: - :CueCat - New Coke - Olestra - OS/2 WARP - Microsoft Bob - Betamax - Smell-O-Vision - Apple Newton - Honeywell Kitchen Computer

bhauer 8y ago
Some more: - Fire Phone - HDDVD - Google Wave - Google+
notimetorelax 8y ago
From a YouTube video, I believe, they have Apple Newton. Interesting trivia, Apple Newton supported growth of ARM: https://www.wired.com/2013/08/remembering-the-apple-newtons-prophetic-failure-and-lasting-ideals/ https://www.wired.com/2013/08/remembering-the-apple-newtons-...
tijn 8y ago
Last summer I took a detour to visit the exposition in Helsingborg. I remember seeing New Coke and the Newton. I think I saw MS Bob too, I could be mistaken though. By the way, I think the collection has potential to grow a lot bigger and I would have liked to seem more in-depth information about each failure. Maybe the hacker-news community can help with that. (Surely someone here must be knowledgeable about failure :-P)
- geuszb 8y ago
  I think I also saw :Cuecat at their last show in LA.
triangleman 8y ago
New Coke was a wildly successful strategy by Roberto Goizueta to 1) Reignite the public's love of Coca-Cola (taking it off the shelves for three months), while at the same time 2) Reformulating "Classic" Coca-Cola to use HFCS which tastes slightly different from the sugared version. It was such a ballsy and creative move, I can hardly believe it really happened. Betamax was technically superior to VHS, and was at the center of a Supreme Court case that ruled home recording to be fair use. It lost out to VHS in the marketplace for various reasons, so it's a good case study of a business failure for sure, but not because the product was bad or ill-conceived.
- curuinor 8y ago
  I have an attestation from the Goizueta family that they aren't that smart and they aren't that stupid (as the COO put it)
- nkoren 8y ago
  I find business failures of technically superior products to be absolutely fascinating and well worth studying. The Amiga and BeOS are two of my all-time favourite failures.
- benj111 8y ago
  "Betamax was technically superior to VHS" Surely that's the point of this museum. These aren't rubbish products, but they failed, and they failed for a reason, and we can learn something from that.
benj111 8y ago
My suggestions: Dasani (uk launch) [1] Sinclair C5 [2] [1]https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/mar/19/foodanddrink https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/mar/19/foodanddrink [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5
psim1 8y ago
> - OS/2 WARP Failed to beat Windows as a desktop or server OS, but succeeded in other ways. It was widely used as an embedded OS for ATMs and distributed as a support software for IBM mainframes. Did it fail because it is no longer around? (Cf. other operating systems such as IRIX or Solaris, which is basically dead now, but strong for a time) Or because it did not fulfill a certain purpose--though it did fulfill another?
beckler 8y ago
Betamax might have been a consumer failure, but I had to use it as recently as 2009 because some TV stations would only take our commercials in a Betamax format. Granted, it was for some local Spanish stations that just had a bunch of old equipment, but I was surprised that it popped up. I'm still not sure what the ad was about, because I don't speak Spanish, but it was a political ad. I just did audio post-production on it.

bhauer 8y ago

Some more: - Fire Phone - HDDVD - Google Wave - Google+

notimetorelax 8y ago

From a YouTube video, I believe, they have Apple Newton. Interesting trivia, Apple Newton supported growth of ARM: https://www.wired.com/2013/08/remembering-the-apple-newtons-prophetic-failure-and-lasting-ideals/ https://www.wired.com/2013/08/remembering-the-apple-newtons-...

tijn 8y ago

Last summer I took a detour to visit the exposition in Helsingborg. I remember seeing New Coke and the Newton. I think I saw MS Bob too, I could be mistaken though. By the way, I think the collection has potential to grow a lot bigger and I would have liked to seem more in-depth information about each failure. Maybe the hacker-news community can help with that. (Surely someone here must be knowledgeable about failure :-P)

geuszb 8y ago
I think I also saw :Cuecat at their last show in LA.

triangleman 8y ago

New Coke was a wildly successful strategy by Roberto Goizueta to 1) Reignite the public's love of Coca-Cola (taking it off the shelves for three months), while at the same time 2) Reformulating "Classic" Coca-Cola to use HFCS which tastes slightly different from the sugared version. It was such a ballsy and creative move, I can hardly believe it really happened. Betamax was technically superior to VHS, and was at the center of a Supreme Court case that ruled home recording to be fair use. It lost out to VHS in the marketplace for various reasons, so it's a good case study of a business failure for sure, but not because the product was bad or ill-conceived.

curuinor 8y ago
I have an attestation from the Goizueta family that they aren't that smart and they aren't that stupid (as the COO put it)
nkoren 8y ago
I find business failures of technically superior products to be absolutely fascinating and well worth studying. The Amiga and BeOS are two of my all-time favourite failures.
benj111 8y ago
"Betamax was technically superior to VHS" Surely that's the point of this museum. These aren't rubbish products, but they failed, and they failed for a reason, and we can learn something from that.

benj111 8y ago

My suggestions: Dasani (uk launch) [1] Sinclair C5 [2] [1]https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/mar/19/foodanddrink https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/mar/19/foodanddrink [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5

psim1 8y ago

> - OS/2 WARP Failed to beat Windows as a desktop or server OS, but succeeded in other ways. It was widely used as an embedded OS for ATMs and distributed as a support software for IBM mainframes. Did it fail because it is no longer around? (Cf. other operating systems such as IRIX or Solaris, which is basically dead now, but strong for a time) Or because it did not fulfill a certain purpose--though it did fulfill another?

beckler 8y ago

Betamax might have been a consumer failure, but I had to use it as recently as 2009 because some TV stations would only take our commercials in a Betamax format. Granted, it was for some local Spanish stations that just had a bunch of old equipment, but I was surprised that it popped up. I'm still not sure what the ad was about, because I don't speak Spanish, but it was a political ad. I just did audio post-production on it.