Museum of Failure (museumoffailure.se)

From a YouTube video, I believe, they have Apple Newton. Interesting trivia, Apple Newton supported growth of ARM: https://www.wired.com/2013/08/remembering-the-apple-newtons-...

Last summer I took a detour to visit the exposition in Helsingborg. I remember seeing New Coke and the Newton. I think I saw MS Bob too, I could be mistaken though.

By the way, I think the collection has potential to grow a lot bigger and I would have liked to seem more in-depth information about each failure. Maybe the hacker-news community can help with that. (Surely someone here must be knowledgeable about failure :-P)

New Coke was a wildly successful strategy by Roberto Goizueta to 1) Reignite the public's love of Coca-Cola (taking it off the shelves for three months), while at the same time 2) Reformulating "Classic" Coca-Cola to use HFCS which tastes slightly different from the sugared version. It was such a ballsy and creative move, I can hardly believe it really happened.

Betamax was technically superior to VHS, and was at the center of a Supreme Court case that ruled home recording to be fair use. It lost out to VHS in the marketplace for various reasons, so it's a good case study of a business failure for sure, but not because the product was bad or ill-conceived.

Some more:

- Fire Phone

- HDDVD

- Google Wave

- Google+

My suggestions:

Dasani (uk launch) [1]

Sinclair C5 [2]

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/mar/19/foodanddrink

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5

> - OS/2 WARP

Failed to beat Windows as a desktop or server OS, but succeeded in other ways. It was widely used as an embedded OS for ATMs and distributed as a support software for IBM mainframes.

Did it fail because it is no longer around? (Cf. other operating systems such as IRIX or Solaris, which is basically dead now, but strong for a time) Or because it did not fulfill a certain purpose--though it did fulfill another?

Betamax might have been a consumer failure, but I had to use it as recently as 2009 because some TV stations would only take our commercials in a Betamax format.

Granted, it was for some local Spanish stations that just had a bunch of old equipment, but I was surprised that it popped up.

I'm still not sure what the ad was about, because I don't speak Spanish, but it was a political ad. I just did audio post-production on it.

Only if it contains itself

Off topic, but: is there an Adblocker-style tool that automatically removes sidebars full of shitty celebrity gossip and swimsuit pictures? It's not the only reason I almost never click a Daily Mail link, but it's the one that usually makes me wish I hadn't. Makes my head hurt trying to filter that out while figuring out if the actual story has anything intelligent or interesting to say.