What are the worst tech purchases you or your family have ever made?

I watched a video recently and wanted to know what other have bought over the years.

  • TheMcG@lemmy.ca
    10·
    2 days ago

    That BlackBerry tablet. It honestly wasn’t a bad device on some levels. It had features that weren’t as easy on other devices for some time. Like the fact it automatically got internet from my phone seamlessly.

    But support for apps was garbage and the hardware the dumb. If you let the battery fully discharge you had to spend like 15 minutes plugging and unplugging the power to force it to trickle charge to get enough battery for it to start the system that ran the battery management.

    • Concetta@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      1 day ago

      I work in the automotive industry, about a year ago another shop was dropping a vehicle off to get worked and a dude wearing a collar had not one, but two blackberry tablets he was using for invoicing and just day to day management.

    • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      I was a tech-manager at Staples when those launched and it was an absolute shit-storm right from the start with returns and complaints.

      The only thing crazier from that time was an HP WebOS tablet (I can’t remember the name) that launched with pretty big fanfare with HP trying to take a marketing page out of Apples playbook, only to have it fail so completely that they announced a week later that support was being dropped and any remaining stock was offered to anyone who wanted at 99 bucks.

      Wild days indeed.

    • Zak@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 days ago

      The power supplies for those things showed up dirt cheap on Ebay at a time when 2A+ USB power supplies were premium items. I bought a bunch of them.