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Critics for Rabbit R1 And Human AI Pin are there, and they are bad. These AI-enabled devices promised to reduce our reliance on smartphones, but now everyone is wondering why they aren't apps. I don't know if we'll be using Rabbits and AI Pins in five years (if so, I hope they can trigger alarms by then), but much of the technology we use today Today received terrible initial reviews.
Early reviews of a device are important because they can set the tone for the success or failure of the hardware, the company that made it, and even the concept as a whole. Receiving a bad review isn't necessarily a death sentence, but it's a big hole to dig into.
In some cases, companies produce a product that fails reviewers, then create a better version themselves based on those reviews as well as what customers want. Other companies never learn from bad reviews, and someone else comes along and makes the best product. In a third special group, no one made another version because it was just a stupid idea. The common thread here is that if there's a good idea, eventually it comes to fruition. We don't consider these negative reviews to be harsh, the products were simply unfinished.
Some were quick to chastise AI Pin and Rabbit reviewers for their poor reviews, but these reviews provide an important service to the tech industry. Negative initial reviews signal to tech companies what went wrong with the first version of a product and what needs to be improved in the second version. Countless products we use today had pretty rough, if not downright horrible, early versions.
In startup culture, there is an oft-thrown phrase called “fail fast.” Let's say your project completely hits a wall, falls flat on its face, or maybe someone determines it's just an android app. A quick failure can quickly indicate what needs to change in the business. Some companies learn and innovate, as long as there is a good idea at the center of it all. But some don't.
Even looking at some of these historically negative reviews, there are plenty of positive remarks about products that were really great. Here are 10 tech products that initially received bad reviews.