Note that this is mostly commercial failure. A lot of these entries were either too early, implemented badly or adopted by hackers, nerds, independent musicians

Note that this is mostly commercial failure. A lot of these entries were either too early, implemented badly or adopted by hackers, nerds, independent musicians, etc. For example, the Roland TB-303 is listed as a commercial flop, but for some reason they omitted the TR-808, which was also a commercial flop [0]. The narrative goes that the "affordably" priced synths then got dumped into thrift stores and available at bargain basement prices that the next generation of musicians then picked up and used. I've heard Snoop Dogg did something similar with editing equipment (though I can't find the reference now). Pets.com was a failure but Chewy.com is going strong. Cue-Cat was a financial failure but was a shot in the arm of a lot of hardware hackers at the time. Weird to see "No Man's Sky" as I was under the impression that was a commercial success. Of course, some were just abject failures, like Theranos. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TR-808 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TR-808