BIGGEST TECH FLOPS OF 2018 !!!

Here is a list of some blunders in tech industry in 2018 that created quite a buzz among common people...

1. Windows 10 October Update

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This has to be the biggest blunder of 2018 in terms of number of people it affected. Some users reported audio problems while others faced Blue Screen of Death. Update's adversity can be explained by fact that some users reported missing files from documents folder in C: Drive. This data loss issue was serious enough for Microsoft to stop update roll-out, only to resume it later on with another update to resolve issues. Considering the fact that more than 700 Million computer are running on Windows 10, how such a buggy update made it's way to computers worldwide? Microsoft should seriously make efforts to have robust testing procedures before public roll-out of any update.

2. The Red Hydrogen One

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This phone by Red Digital Cinema is a perfect example of how to screw up first product launch and create a negative brand image among people. Taking pre-orders with complete payment and then failing to release the product at the specified time-frame. Many product launch delays accumulated to around 14 months of delay in total. These delays are enough to kill the remaining excitement among audience and hype surrounding phone. A famous you-tuber SuperSaf even shared his bad experience when he failed to cancel his pre-order due to no-response from company. His video explaining the matter : RED Hydrogen One - My Preorder Experience. After the launch, there were more problems in final product than users would have liked. The biggest one of them was it's high price, close to $1300 which coupled with last-generation hardware specifications like 2017’s Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor made it even worse. Since Red is into making cinematography cameras, all the hype surrounding this device was around it's camera and display. The cameras turned out to be mediocre and holographic screen was cool gimmick. All in all, this product was a huge failure. 

3. Facebook Privacy Breaches

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It came to public knowledge in March of 2018 that around 87 million people's data was leaked in a Facebook data breach. A company known as Global Science Research made Facebook application named "personality quiz" with purpose to collect user's data and sell it to another company named Cambridge Analytica, making it a clear violation of Facebook policies. This data was then used by Cambridge Analytica for social influencing efforts. In September, Facebook confirmed that as many as 30 million accounts had been hacked due to security issues.