{"id":3291,"date":"2008-07-18T09:10:29","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T09:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3291"},"modified":"2008-07-18T09:10:29","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T09:10:29","slug":"21_great_techno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3291","title":{"rendered":"21 Great Technologies That Failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,1895,2325941,00.asp\">Jeremy A. Kaplan and Sascha Segan<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The most innovative tech doesn&#8217;t always succeed. Here we present 10 great technologies each from Apple and Microsoft that were simply too far ahead of their time.<br \/>\nMention technology that failed and people instantly think of Microsoft Bob, the IBM PCjr, and worse. But those weren&#8217;t necessarily great products\u2014heck, Bob wasn&#8217;t a good idea at all. The ideas and innovations that succeed aren&#8217;t necessarily the best either; they just happened to be in the right place at the right time. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,1895,2325941,00.asp\">Jeremy A. Kaplan and Sascha Segan<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The most innovative tech doesn&#8217;t always succeed. Here we present 10 great technologies each from Apple and Microsoft that were simply too far ahead of their time.<br \/>\nMention technology that failed and people instantly think of Microsoft Bob, the IBM PCjr, and worse. But those weren&#8217;t necessarily great products\u2014heck, Bob wasn&#8217;t a good idea at all. The ideas and innovations that succeed aren&#8217;t necessarily the best either; they just happened to be in the right place at the right time. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}