The Engadget portal team traditionally summarizes the year by naming the main failures and the main victories in the global IT sphere. Experts claim that 2023 was a difficult year for the industry: the world witnessed the closure of one of the largest gaming conferences, E3, the deterioration of the quality of popular online platforms, the decline of the cryptocurrency market and the financial sector as a whole. (including banks, and not just in Silicon Valley) . However, the failures of some specific companies seem no less obvious than the generally unfavorable economic environment.
At the top of the top five failed IT projects of 2023 is X, the old Twitter transformed by Elon Musk into the “most chaotic social network” in the world. It’s followed by Microsoft’s unsold Surface tablets (and experts say “Microsoft’s dream of creating a true tablet-laptop hybrid is dead”).
“Speaking of dreams, Amazon’s dreams were also crushed when the company stopped supporting its Halo line of healthcare-related hardware products in July of this year,” the journalists wrote.
Analysts emphasize that a display-less activity tracker has lost its relevance, despite developers’ statements about interesting integration capabilities with smartphone sensors. All “body index measurements” presented as highly accurate have not been validated on the market.
The top 5 is completed by the aforementioned gaming conference E3, which ceased to exist in 2023. Binance and Reddit are also mentioned in failed projects.
The publication names X’s main competitor, the social network Threads (owned by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, a recognized extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) as the main technological breakthrough of the year.
After the initial surge in downloads, there was a period of declining interest in the product, but then user numbers returned to 100 million per month and the app became the fourth most downloaded app of the year on the AppStore.
Second among the year’s business successes is OpenAI’s ChatGPT (and the rise of generative AI in general, in which competition with Bard and Bing Chat played a role). In third place are RCS, USB-C and Apple’s Qi 2 as a forced tribute to antitrust laws.
In fourth and fifth place are the foldable smartphones Pixel Fold and OnePlus Open, promising competitors to the clamshells from Samsung and Apple Vision Pro, respectively. Gaming laptops and Elon Musk’s Neuralink are also mentioned in the ranking.
Author:
Ekaterina Alipova
Source: RB
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