A Surface RT … Slow, barely any software support. Totally lost whatever trust I had for Microsoft.
The wonderful result of Microsoft and Qualcomms exclusivity agreement.
Welcome to the Abandoned By Microsoft club. For me it was Windows Phone 7.
I used mine for GBA emulation for a while, and it ran flash for some reason.
That garbage tablet gave me lasting resentment for ARM processors.
Either an hp ink jet printer.
Or my apple watch. The apple watch step counter is just plain broken. I can say hey siri a dozen times it may or may not respond.
The iPhone
iPad can’t open anything, keeps crashing. (relatively new)
You mean files? Or apps? Or mails? …
all of it, well mail works. I know I mainly used it for VLC which atleast 2/3 times I tried opening a file, my ipad would just restart, same with some apps.
Your iPad sounds pretty broken, that’s not normal.
That or the files he has are badly corrupted…
they’re not, work fine on any non-apple device, (iPhone had a similar problem, although not as bad.) those devils devices have been collecting dust for a while now.
A Huawei MediaPad M5 Lite.
Their own lower-end APUs are sooo slow (even worse than Samsung) and the bloated stock ROM doesn’t help. The tablet was borderline unusable without limiting background applications (which for some reason reset every time you reebooted the thing), and it’s not like it ever got any updates.
Nintendo virtual boy.
Really? Despite how much of a flop it was, if I owned one I feel like I’d find it fun?
Though now that I think about it…did it even have many games?
I was fun for a moment and then the headaches and nausea would kick in. And yeah, very few games. At the time it was pretty innovative as Nintendo always is. Still a terrible experience however.
It wasn’t really fun, and I could never see properly in it.
Hmm, good point. I have an astigmatism and slightly different vision in both eyes so now I’m questioning if it would even work for me.
Yeah I have the world’s smallest astigmatism in my left eye and even that was annoying for me as a kid using it.
I was willing to put up with a lot of sacrifices for a $100 smartwatch but I was not expecting the level of trash I received. Unappealing and cheap looking silver colored case, typos in menus, and navigating the painfully underperformant UI made me immediately regret my purchase. There were many other issues I’ve since pushed out of my memory. I packed it up for a return within 24 hours.
The ONLY positive was supposedly the battery lasted weeks but I didn’t want to use the damn thing for more than 5 minutes.
Not sure if it counts as technology but it was a Ford Focus.
Ipod touch 5.
I keep my electronics for long, so seeing my iPod turn slow and not being able to do anything about it really pushed me away from apple.
Handheld sewing machine. Not sure if all are like this or just the cheapo one i bought, it can’t sew anything thick else it will get stuck often and can’t make the loop. End up shelving it and never use it since then.
I bought something on eBay for 10 dollars that was supposed to be able to copy key fobs. Didn’t work.
A lot of those are very dependent on which tech is in the key fob. They can easily copy old hid prox which just broadcast the UUID of the fob, but struggle with newer tech that does a challenge and response.
Any device produced by the Transsion company, a company which exists only to scam ppl out of their hard earned money and create e-waste. They’re the owners of the Infinix, Tecno and Itel mobile lineups
if you want a 2gb ram device produced this year that can get so hot and burn the flesh off your palm, get one of these devices, they’re so prevalent in Africa, India and other developing countries
the marketing budget for each lineup outweighs the RnD budget for the three collectively
Microsoft surfacebook (or whatever the fuck that thing was called) that died after like 13 months. Motherboard went to shit and MS offered me a $100 discount on a new one. Yeah fuck that, I bought a MacBook Pro.
FM radio receivers for the car.
Never could find a radio station that would work. When you did, it only worked for about 1/4 mile down the road and then had to find another station.
Where do you live? I don’t listen to the radio anymore but when I did, I could get my favorite station 50 miles away no problem.
It’s not the radio that didn’t work. These were fm transmitter/receivers you used to play mp3 players/cd players back in the day when vehicles didn’t use aux cables. It sent the signal over short range fm signal to your radio.
The alternative was the cassette adapter, but some vehicles had swapped to cd
If your car is old enough to have a tape deck, they have cassettes that connect via Bluetooth. Just about perfect sound quality since there is no interference.
I changed cars in January and the car I previously drove, an 05, Jetta had a tape deck. I bought this to connect my phone. Surprised that it handled calls as well.
I remember when those things first came out and used a headphone jack so you could plug in your CD player. (those were the days…)
I was actually kinda pissed when I had to switch to a car with a CD player and couldn’t use it anymore.
Yeah those worked way better than the fm transmitters. Only problem was my car introduced a humming sound into the signal that got worse with speed lol.
You were supposed to have an antenna.
Samsung M540 “Slyde” phone - The software was incredibly buggy including things like just randomly typing the wrong letter. Randomly bad tech is so much more irritating than tech you know is bad.
Google Nexus 7 (2012) - The tablet had defective chips that slowed down over time. Turned into a horrible slow piece of shit over time.
Oh, remember the good old Nexus 7. Had only a fraction of its performance 1-2 years down the line…
Meanwhile, my Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 2016 still soldiers on with good performance, even if it hasn’t gotten updates in half a decade, and its internal 16GB space is beyond ridiculously small for today’s standards and has to be cleaned up revery few months.
Oh, remember the good old Nexus 7. Had only a fraction of its performance 1-2 years down the line…
Hahaha. Shit, I didn’t even get that far before the touch digitalizer broke. Maybe 8 months in and dead.
I got mad because my mom bought it in the US. Didn’t sell in my country. What a piece of shit.
Edit: It was made by ASUS!
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I still have the refreshed second gen version running, got an android 12 rom flashed and now it is being used with an amcrest camera as a privacy friendly nanny cam monitor!
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