13 Most EVIL Tech Fails

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glitches that, through Instant Karma, have completely backfired on companies trying to make a quick buck, from quite naughty to downright diabolical, starting with Nokia and its Lumia 920 in the promotional material for the phone. The company decided that they really wanted to emphasize the power of the 920's optical image stabilization, so they created this situation where a guy was holding the phone on his bike and was using the phone to record this girl on another bike, but viewers noticed something a little later in the video, ominously, the reflection of a person is seen who was not the original cyclist holding the phone, but a completely different guy standing in a van with a proper heavy duty film camera and that It's because the video wasn't actually filmed on the 920.

It was filmed with this, it's speculated that it was a red film camera, which I mean, those things cost a minimum of $10,000. Nokia faked the entire ad and that's especially bad because this ad not only vaguely implies that it was filmed with the phone, it basically tells you so. You can't do that in the age of the Reddit researcher, which means Nokia was forced to publicly apologize and practically tarnish the reputation of its only remaining successful product line. Everything goes downhill from there, reality. There is nothing better than the Internet and that is something Netflix also had to learn in 2011.

You may know that Netflix actually started as an online DVD rental service by mail so people used the website to choose what they wanted watch and then The company would send them as discs along with a prepaid return envelope, but as soon as Internet connections began to improve and people were also looking for alternatives to cable TV, Netflix also introduced the option for subscribers to simply broadcast a smaller selection of films on television programs. in their library directly from their site like we do now and as Netflix's streaming business grew and they discovered that, surprise, it was cheaper to run than manually going to the post office and mailing discs to people, they needed to find a way to encourage people to choose. that option is where they went wrong in 2011.

Netflix decided that they were going to split their streaming and DVD rental services, which were previously included for one price, not just into two different tiers, but into two separate companies, completely changing the name of your DVD service to make it faster. This implies that users have to have two separate accounts, two separate websites to browse and also two separate rates to pay for the Internet. I quickly came to the conclusion that keeping both subscriptions after the split would result in a price increase not of 5% or 10%, but 60% led to 800,000 users not subscribing to both, but simply canceling their subscriptions. existing ones, causing Netflix's total share price to fall to half its value.

They talk about net failures: 4 out of 10 fail and, of course, Netflix had to withdraw from the plan. with their tail between their legs after only a month and actually this whole thing remained a single service until they stopped renting DVDs completely last year, yes they've still been doing it this whole time but it can always get worse, like we are about to see. With some game flops becoming more and more immoral, remember when every game studio was rushing to implement nfts into their games? which artificially increases their perceived value and if you increase the value of your in-game items well, that should drive more people to play your game for longer to earn them and create a market where players can buy and sell them and of course , Developers take a cut from every transaction, oh my god wait that's the real smoke alarm can you just turn that off oh god just EA is probably the

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notorious company for pumping up nfts which is not very surprising given that they were voted the worst company in America in 2013, but in recent times?

For years now, it has started to look like Ubisoft is pursuing the title because in 2021 they revealed their plans for nfts and games playable through a service called Ubisoft quartz, starting with Ghost Recon, however, because they are actually designing thousands of items unique exclusives. It would take Ubisoft a long time, they had a better idea of ​​giving everyone the same item with the unique twist that each one had its own serial number, like any other product you've ever bought in a store, but what made it a lot worse. is that the entire game was designed around those nfts, each of which requires between 100 and 600 hours to earn, almost forcing players who wanted them but still wanted to have a life to take out their real wallets and pay, Fortunately, Karma bites the Ubisoft trailer.

Courts was delisted from YouTube almost immediately after it skyrocketed to 95% dislikes and when the project was finally released, it was such a colossal failure that it will never stop being funny, the company probably lost millions in damages to reputation by measure, how much did they earn? of their entire nft efforts, about $400 so they could buy about seven copies of their own game, is a five out of 10, but even worse is what happened to a game that I was personally very excited about, one of my favorite video games of all. Actually, time is Star Wars Battlefront 2 on PlayStation 2, this game is basically sacred to Star Wars fans, so imagine our reaction when EA comes in and says they're rebooting this exact game for the modern era in 2017, but with NextGen realism.

I remember wanting to call every person on my contact list just to tell them how important this was. We were all so caught up in the excitement that the world almost completely forgot what designing this game was about, and thus the microtransaction-riddled mess it would end up being when the game's beta dropped, if you wanted to basically make any progress, You would have to open dozens and dozens of completely random loot boxes until you got what you needed and if you wanted to do it without spending a month literally glued to your TV screen, you'll have to take out your wallet and spend real money.

Now it's one thing to have paid items in a game and quite another for those paid items to be random and, most importantly, crucial to actually winning. These boxes not only contained skins and cosmetics, genuinely innovative character upgrades that would likely make a difference. between winning and losing the players were not happy and made their voice heard one player complained to EA that it was basically impossible to unlock Darth Vader, the most shameless character, to put him behind a paywall without paying real money and yes, EA made things worse by responding to this by saying that the reason the characters were so expensive is because they wanted players to have meaning. of achievements by earning them and this super condescending and absolutely audacious lie completely blew up, becoming such a fiasco that even non-gaming related gaming news sites were reporting on it.

EA was taken to court by the Belgian gaming commission accused of promoting the game to underage players and they have basically been arguing their case in court since the game got better but no one has forgiven the company to the point that new releases from the company in 2023 are still being investigated, now say what you want about Ubisoft. and EA at least made the games that landed them on this list the same, the same can't be said for raw raw was a massively multiplayer online life simulator that promised huge things. The initial trailer showed entire cities with a complete economy where each player has a job, can buy property and vehicles and sign contracts with other players, can even become mayor and rule their server.

It basically looked like GTA Online, but with 100 times the complex systems, meaning the trailers were flashy and well animated, but it was all cutscenes, not actual gameplay, which said that didn't stop a lot of people from supporting it. the project on Kickstarter, leading the game to easily surpass the almost $80,000 the company was asking to fund a huge amount of money, absolutely enough to develop a game. This expansion isn't even close to what these guys were trying to do here would have cost tens of millions of dollars and needed 100 developers at minimum. How many did they have?

They had two people. All signs pointed to a scam and they almost got away with it. with him, but it was greed, he was trying to convince people that they were actually working on something in the hopes that he could get a little more funding from Kickstarter. They made a fatal mistake. They released a trailer for the game that didn't exist. and as soon as the internet saw it, people immediately realized that everything from the furniture to the players, Running Animation, were all stock assets, clearly freshly gathered from the asset store that people would use as a base to build a game on Kickstarter suspended. their funding immediately and also fined them the full value of everything they had raised so far.

You may have recently heard about right to repair - the idea that as a consumer you should be able to freely repair your own device rather than having to send it back to the manufacturer who basically guarantee that they will charge you more than they would charge you. It's hard if you look at a single company, but quite possibly the worst offender is the huge agricultural

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nology company John Deere, which began integrating engine control units into its equipment, which once it detects any problems, it simply turns off many of the functions. engine problems that require specific software and tools to fix, and where do you get those software and tools?

Oh, go to John Deere. Ah, now it makes sense that this company was literally designing their products to make them. deliberately difficult to repair and at the same time refuses to provide farmers or independent repair shops with the tools necessary to do so, which hurts even more than all the right to repair drama with the iPhone because, let's be honest, practically no users A normal individual is fixing his own phone, while in the case of farmers and their tractors, it is very normal for you to fix it yourself, and your livelihood depends on it. You'll miss the entire crop waiting for John Deere to have to fix it and that's not counting the huge You'll get a bill for that, so luckily the company is currently facing two class action lawsuits accusing them of monopolizing the industry and since their repair generates between 3 and six times more profits than they make by selling their equipment, it is Looking less like John Deere, more like a deer OD, can you imagine how stressful it has been having to research this video to find out all the details unbearable of this

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This is like the only series you don't want to be a regular on. In a video of past failures, we talk about Boeing's absolute negligence with its 737 Max plane, the next generation of the most popular plane in history, which thanks to a large number of bad decisions crashed twice causing the deaths of hundreds of passengers, it was a catastrophe and they did it again on January 5, 2024. The Boeing 737 Max plane flying from Portland to California had to return for an emergency landing shortly after takeoff when the door opened. I mean, imagine you're flying 60,000 feet in the air, you're barely 5 minutes away from Shrek. 2 on your phone when the door right next to the seats flies off into Oblivion, miraculously only seven seats on that plane were unoccupied and two of them were next to that door, meaning that somehow not a single person turned out seriously injured, but people. they lost a person's belongings they took his shirt off his body and if he wasn't wearing a seat belt there's a good chance he would have done it. side note incredibly a phone thatfell out of the plane, which sounds to me like a 14 pro was found on the side of a road still running after that fall, yeah as far as this 737 Max goes after this incident, and everyone was completely shocked that This could happen even to an airplane that had just left production. 2 months ago, about 170 of them were grounded so they could be inspected for possible problems with the doors, after which both United and Alaska Airlines found several loose parts, including installation problems with the exact same plug of door that had caused the accident in almost 10 of them. its seven Boeing 9 planes and then the Federal Aviation Administration found more manufacturing problems that forced Boeing's CEO to have to admit a quality control failure, which one could argue is not bad, just negligent, but then I think that persistent negligence in the face of even potentially fatal consequences seems quite corrupt to me.

Oh, and the Ontario flight passengers are also suing them, leading to this being our first bill 6 out of 10. Have you ever heard of Bit Connect? It is very likely that you have seen or heard this. Unstoppable in 2016 when the new Bitconnect cryptocurrency was first launched, here are some tips that I think some people would have used in the moment when someone literally has to yell at you about how good their virtual currency is, don't buy it bitconnect if you take what they say at face value bitconnect seems crazy profitable users were promised a 1% return on their investment each day which if you do the math means if you lose up to $11,000 the first day , when accumulated every day at the end of 3 years you would be at 50 million.

The guy was basically promising people free money and the crazy part. The thing was that it worked while the value of a bitconnect started at 0.1. The sheer fever these guys managed to create around this coin skyrocketed the value to a high of 455 and then the authorities got involved. from the first of what would become many crypto Ponzi schemes, basically a scam where someone asks you for an investment and then asks you to go and recruit even more investors. They pay you, but you only get paid because they are attracting more people. into the trap from the bottom of the pyramid and they invest their money too and the problem with this is that eventually the pyramid has to collapse because you can't keep finding larger and larger groups of new investors to support the growing weight from the top, so yes, bitconnect.

It was eventually forced to refund each of its investors and over $50 million worth of cryptocurrency was confiscated from one of its founders, 7 out of 10, but we're not always so lucky, sometimes tech companies actually do something horrible and they get away with it. So, just before number five, here's a quick round of those who got away with the launch of the iPhone 14. Apple really pushed the envelope when they tried to sell the fact that they were using the exact same chipset for the iPhone 14 they used for the iPhone 13 as a feature of the iPhone 14 when I saw this my jaw Hit the Floor csgo Lotto was a website where people could bet real money on collectible weapon skins in the game Counter-Strike Global Offensive, The site came out of nowhere when it was suddenly massively promoted by two gaming YouTubers who kept posting videos of them winning big and encouraging their mostly younger viewers to participate and because it managed to carefully circumvent gambling laws. , there were no restrictions on those under 18 joining until it was revealed that these two YouTubers were the owners of the site and must have been making money because they were exposed for paying other influencers up to $255,000 each to promote the site , but what happened when they were sued for promoting gambling to children?

Well, they literally got away with it. Do not do that again. Amazon is widely considered the worst big tech company for the way it treats its staff in terms of stress. It encourages delivery drivers to make more than 150 stops in a single day, often causing them to skip meals and even go to the bathroom. in terms of safety, with Amazon warehouse staff having called ambulances over a thousand times since 2018 in the UK alone and in terms of general ethics, with up to 18,000 workers recently laid off in one go, most found out via email, but up to this point, it hasn't reached them in any meaningful way and then while all the tax systems around the world charge you more, the more money you make, the big six tech companies, Amazon Alphabet , Facebook, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft, have individually managed to slip away.

They achieved this by locating their headquarters in low-tax areas, although those are not the areas in which they primarily operate. They managed to get away with paying just $219 billion in taxes between 2010 and 2020, that may seem like a lot, but these are the richest companies in the world and that represents only 3.6% of their total income. Reference people who earn large amounts here in the UK pay 45%. If you are enjoying this video, a subscription to the channel would be perverse. There will be no more companies that get away, now it's time for the top five companies that are really evil and that were punished just as badly for it, starting with Wei Workk, the company that practically invented the concept of buying office buildings and then rent apartments and individual spaces. for companies and aspiring entrepreneurs and we work generated a lot of excitement.

It was great for networking. It was great for motivating people who would otherwise be sitting in their parents' basement. It gave entrepreneurs a more typical work life structure which, as someone who works I can see the benefit at quite odd hours, as can many people because, in fact, at his peak, Wei's work was valued at a figure Absolutely stunning, hard to even think about for 48 billion, but no one is immune to this series and it's pretty much the only reason. Our job failed is their extremely irresponsible CEO Adam Newman. This guy had something so good in his hands but he kept making incredibly reckless decisions like buying a $60 million private jet before the company went public.

Invest heavily in a company that manufactures artificial waves. pools or like when Newman changed the company name from we work to we company, which is a name he himself recently trademarked so he could sell that name to the company, making $5.9 million in personal profits, but The final nail in the coffin came when wework finally decided to go public Now, when a company goes public and everyone starts buying shares, most CEOs tend to wait for this moment before selling their own shares to maximize the worth. Newman, for some reason, decided to take the entire $700 million out of it. in stock basically the night before, meaning that by the time we worked they were actually available to buy, the now public stats on it just showed huge losses, which doesn't work.

Newman's continued poor leadership brought this company to a stage where they were so poor they couldn't. They can't even afford to lay off their employees, which led to them asking him to resign. One CEO we worked with still exists, but he hasn't even come close to his original dizzying valuation sins, but some failures arise from nobler goals than simply trying to make a quick bark like, say, trying to solve hunger in the world, like when scientists at MIT's media lab developed what they called the food computer, basically a capsule designed to produce perfect crops with LEDs, sensors, pumps, and precision machine learning algorithms that constantly modified the internal climate.

The idea was to sell thousands. of these things to farmers to create massive farming servers that would allow anyone to grow anything and absolutely revolutionize farming as we know it, they even announced that they have already started sending units to a refugee camp that could actually help people except that they didn't have them. It turned out that the leader of the project, Caleb Harper, was simply lying about it for publicity and it turned out that that wasn't the only thing he was lying about because in 2020 it came to light that the food computer itself didn't even work on the En First of all, this guy had gone so far as to have his team go out and buy potted plants at a store, plant them in the computers, and pass them off as special specimens that had been grown from scratch from inside the devices.

MIT obviously fired Harper and shut down the project immediately, but things got worse because it turns out that the project had also been contaminating the local water supply with toxic nitrogen-infused wastewater all along, so MIT was also found , but I can't think of a more ongoing error in judgment. What happened recently with Reddit on April 18, 2023, Reddit announced changes to their data policies to be able to better monetize their data, essentially before this happened, many tools will be able to freely access Reddits data, which means that moderators who look after different communities could create tools that help them actively approve and reject posts as they come in, that many users were free to use third-party tools to navigate Reddit in a more organized and efficient way and also that Reddit had become the perfect place to train new AI. models because it's just 18 years of pure human conversation, so if you ever wanted to build an AI that talks like us and thinks like us, then it's a gold mine and this deal worked out pretty well, almost all of these moderators were basically doing the reddit work for them for free reddit was making huge amounts of cash through the site's advertising revenue and the platform was also providing a general service for the internet, but reddit didn't like it that they decided they wanted to start charge for the use of their data partly to obviously make more money immediately, but partly because they knew this would also allow them to charge external Reddit clients like Apollo, who, since they have to access Reddit data to work , they charge a lot of cash like in the case of Apollo, these charges would have literally cost the app $20 million per year in data charges, so they were forced to shut down.

Remember that this is not just a normal company that decides to increase the prices of its products, it is a company that was almost built by the people who saw its work. as a form of charity as a way to help share information that they felt made the world a better place and when redditors found out what had happened they were outraged, it became Global News and many subreddit moderators began to shut down . In T Test protest, either by starving those subreddits or activating the not safe for work label so that Reddit can no longer monetize its content at the beginning of the protest, more than 7,000 subreddits went dark and some were closed indefinitely.

Reddit then tried to calm things down by offering and asking me anything with its CEO Steve Huffman, but his refusal to budge only angered users further. He constantly said that things like this are like a city protest that goes on too long and that the moderators who are unpaid volunteers remember that they are like the landed gentry, that is, people who have been given undeserved power without ever having had than to earn it themselves, essentially this company, once the social platform with the largest active community in the world, continues to shoot itself in the foot in this way until its reputation is tarnished basically forever.

Goodwill shattered, which is more important for Reddit than anyone, not to mention the huge impact on overall engagement on the platform, eight outs fail now, it's hard to screw up more than that, but I think Volkswagen takes it next than they did in 2015. discovered that this company had been equipping their cars with engines deliberately programmed to activate their emissions controls only when they detect that they are in a laboratory test, which basically meant that Volkswagen cars were programmed to have two modes, one that meant they were actually terrible to drive with low power and mileage, which would allow them to pass Environmental Protection tests and then the other mode that drivers experienced, which drove fine but secretly pumped up to 40 times the federal limit of some contaminants when it was discovered that I have beendoing this since 2009 with 11 million cars worldwide equipped with the test cheating technology this company rightly got absolutely hammered facing eye-watering fines of $25 billion if that's not a 9 out of 10 failure, I don't know what it is, but it's quite possible that the biggest wealth to rags we've ever covered in any of these videos is FDX, so this is the freed banker who in 2019 founded the company FTX, which became the second largest cryptocurrency exchange, a platform like binance where people could buy and sell their cryptocurrencies and people were into it, a combination of considerable marketing budgets, the promise of extreme returns and overnight riches, celebrity endorsements and big sponsorship deals like, literally, Mercedes Ben's Formula 1 team and even the NBA team Miami Heat, whose entire stadium was actually renamed FTX Arena.

I mean, these guys even had a Super Bowl ad featuring legendary comedian Larry David, creator of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, and their release was hailed as God's gift to the cryptocurrency world, so how the hell do they fuck? From there, well FTX was actually a disaster, what looked like on the outside the future of investing was on the inside, just problem after problem stacked on top of each other, the first being that they weren't being completely honest, it turns out The released FTX banker also owned another cryptocurrency trading company called alamida research. He said that both companies were operating completely separately, but it turned out that he was secretly sending customer deposits from FTX so that money would be exchanged with people to Alam Research to then invest in risky things.

Trying to turn it into even more money by betting with client funds between companies without telling them is spectacularly illegal, especially since we're not talking about thousands of dollars or even millions, this was done with a billion dollars and there was an even more fundamental problem. The way a cryptocurrency exchange should work is to constantly make sure that you have liquid assets and a lot of money to make sure that if any customer decides that they want to get out and want to exchange their crypto back to dollars, they say that the exchange can give it to them .

FTX didn't have the money the banker released told people he had was actually almost entirely other cryptocurrencies, which already makes them unstable in case something were to happen in the cryptocurrency market, but what's more worrying is that their biggest asset was his own cryptocurrency called ftt, let me get the So Sam created a coin, assigned a value to that coin and then used that value as the natural cash to fund his projects and earn investments and what that meant is that the ability FTX as a platform to pay anyone was completely dependent. about ftx's current market value, which is fine when it's doing well, but as soon as the ties started turning against cryptocurrencies, which coincided with one of ftx's competing platforms deciding to dump every bit of ftt that they had in one fell swoop.

Suddenly the market was flooded with ftt that no one wanted and its value collapsed. FTX immediately lost a large part of the value it had so far. Then it gets worse because as soon as a ton of ftt is sold, customers start losing trust in FTX and at the same time FTX loses their money, they have to donate it , leading to a massive implosion of bankruptcy for the company and for Sam. Freed banker faces up to 115 years in prison that's a 10 thanks for watching it really means a lot to me I'll see you next time