What a year for technology, what with all its tiny tablets and overhauled operating systems. But for every Nexus 7 triumph, a Nexus Q adversity reared its abominable head. Here are the affliction screw-ups the tech industry endured in 2012. Advanced warning: They're not for the aside of heart.
The alone acumen SOPA's not at the top of this account is that it didn't pass. It didn't even accomplish it to a vote. But the worst internet adjustment bill in, well, ever came alarmingly abutting to acceptable a law this year. That it fabricated it as far as it did is embarrassing, and added than a little bit terrifying.
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It was a asperous year for HP on about every believable front. After crumbling abroad its $1.2 billion Palm investment in 2011, it lost webOS Big Brain Jon Rubenstein, spent months ambivalent beneath new CEO Meg Whitman, and appear that its $11 billion cost purchase, Autonomy, was in fact riddled with (very expensive) fraud. Oh and uh, still waiting on that phone, guys.
By shoe-horning Google+ into its advertise product—search—Google beneath its user acquaintance by leaps and bounds. It's accomplished that Google wants to accord its apprentice amusing arrangement as abundant abstract as it can spare. But authoritative amusing seek an opt-out product—instead of opt-in—made Google searches worse by default, and gave Bing the aperture it needed to get a foothold.
Just if you anticipate you apperceive the guy who's the affiche adolescent for your all-embracing hacking syndicate, he goes and gives up aggregate and anybody you know and adulation to the FBI. Whoops! The high-level Anonymous arrests that followed Sabu's betrayal gutted the mischief-makers so acutely the accumulation still hasn't recovered, and may never.
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5. Intel's Phony CES Demo
Intel's affirmation of Ivy Bridge-based ultrabooks this accomplished January was absolutely impressive. It was aswell totally fake. While the aggregation claimed that the graphically accelerated antagonism bold on date was accepting played in real-time, it was in fact a prerecorded video clip. There's annihilation amiss with assuming a video of your artefact instead of accomplishing it live; what aching the a lot of in this case was—as it consistently is—the lying.
Another one from the big affected fakers file. If Nokia showed off the PureView camera technology on its Lumia 920, we were larboard afraid at its stabilization capabilities. And even added so if we begin out the images weren't in fact taken with a Lumia 920 at all. And afresh again if Nokia claimed it never said it was a 920 audience in the aboriginal place. It was misleading, but a lot of of all it was insulting. Again, there's annihilation amiss with assuming artefact simulations. But aggravating to canyon them off at the absolute thing—and accepting caught—is about as big a addle-brain as you can do.
Until just a few months ago, it was mind-bogglingly simple to get admission to someone's Apple or Amazon accounts, and to arbitrarily clean out their absolute agenda actuality (sorry, Mat!) The affliction allotment though? Both companies knew about the loophole, and did annihilation to shut it down until accessible clamor affected them to. Kudos to Amazon for the quick fix; ascetic finger-wag to Apple for boring its heels.
Google introduced its odd little media-streaming apple with agitating alarum aback in June, after anytime acutely authoritative the case for why anyone would in fact want a $300 Android absolute conflicting dung beetle drop in their active room. Also: it didn't work, to the point that Google pulled the bung on the Q afore it could anytime clearly ship. And fabricated the ones that did leave the barn retroactively free.
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The apocalyptic abhorrence show that was the Apple Maps barrage would accept been a adversity from any company, but it was a decidedly abrupt adversity from one that has historically placed so abundant amount on things just working appropriate out of the box. How bad is it? Apple added a Maps section to its own App Store so that you wouldn't accept to use its adverse effort. It apologized about and repeatedly. And it fired at atomic two arresting executives—including Scott Forstall, the Godfather of iOS.
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