The Biggest Tech Fails (2000-2025)

Our founder, Rob compiled feedback from tech professionals on social media to identify the biggest technology failures from 2000-2025, revealing recurring patterns of cultural blind spots, poor execution, and missed opportunities across major tech companies. The comprehensive list includes social media disasters like Google+'s poor execution and Twitter's sale to Elon Musk, mobile platform failures such as Microsoft abandoning Windows Phone and BlackBerry's resistance to touchscreens, content missteps like Quibi's lack of product-market fit, destructive mergers like AOL-Time Warner, missed opportunities like Yahoo not buying Google and Intel declining Apple's ARM chip deal, and broader industry-wide issues including surveillance capitalism and the lack of early regulation.

Leathern notes that while these failures highlight the tech industry's ethical immaturity, the willingness of tech professionals to openly discuss and learn from these mistakes is encouraging, suggesting that the biggest failure would be if the industry stopped this self-reflection entirely.

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