What technology do you regret buying in your life?
Me: It was a cheap $200 Emachines laptop on Black Friday in 2009. It was a pretty good laptop, but had an awful single core processor. Also, the ports began failing after a couple of years.
Bats
<p>My Verizon-Microsoft Lumia phone. I thought I could like it, if I spent time with it, but it was useless to me as it was incompatible to my entire digital way of life. I wish I could get back the $200+ (or $12/month for 24 months) I spent to get it. </p>
bharris
<p>Cheap router….and by the time you mess around extenders, the wasted time and the frustration…..Never again. I finally got sick of fooling around with all of it and spent $400 on an Asus. Money well spent</p>
slartybartmark
<p>Surface Book. Worst laptop(s) I've ever used bar none. </p><p>Company bought 4 of them (all different models) and have had 11 total machines due to hardware failures and sending them back to MS. </p>
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#235227"><em>In reply to FalseAgent:</em></a></blockquote><p>I don't regret our 4 Windows phones because due their unpopularity at the time we purchased them, we got some fairly decent hardware at a discount. Having said that, the lack of standard apps is starting to take their toll on the family. We will probably have to switch some of them to Android soon (nothing in particular against iPhones but we can't afford them).</p>
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#235299"><em>In reply to FalseAgent:</em></a></blockquote><p>The fact that Whatsapp is no longer supported on my wife's Windows phone is exactly what I was referring to. Everybody has their own "basic" list – I don't use most of the apps you called out. What I miss is the customer-to-business apps. Even FireOS is better supported than Windows phones. You can visit businesses' websites instead, but browsing on a phone remains a terrible experience in general.</p>
skane2600
<p>One of those TV Wonder USB devices back in the day. You were supposed to be able to use your PC as a DVR, but when playing back a video the sound got out of sync in the first minute or so. I should have realized that a USB-based device wasn't going to work very well. Wishful thinking on my part and the vendor was only to happy to indulge potential customers' denial. :)</p>
bharris
<blockquote><a href="#235938"><em>In reply to bpaul14:</em></a><em> Does anyone remember the Castlewood ORB drive…2 gigs per disk…Enormous at the time! Worked great….until it didn't! You pop in a disk and it was always like :"I wonder if this is going to work" I had probably $400 tied up in the drive and disks. After losing some files a few times, I threw all of it in garbage</em></blockquote><p><br></p>
skane2600
<p>A paper-white VGA monitor. My denial was strong on that one.</p>