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Your also forgetting that the list is that of over-rated technologies; and as far as I am concerned everything listed is OVERRATED; does this mean it sucks? NO but it does mean that the I-Phone 3G should not be considered the god of all small-sized techno-gadgets where D&D nerds and business wannabes want to go out and blow a load all over its screen.

I do agree though that I am not entirely sure how correct this writer is on the blue-tooth technology; my friend and I both use blue-tooth for a variety of daily tasks (including headsets, earphones and of course our wireless PS controllers)- and none of these very versatile applications go wrong hardly ever.. IF ever, the primary problem we face is our PS controllers dieing in the middle of a game! I don't know why anyone would ever want to use blue-tooth to power wireless printers and other computer-based add-ons but I've always been pretty keen on placing computer related equipment near the computer (and then I just use my cords).

As for the Mac OS I completely agree with the poster's statements, it is not more secure than the Windows OS it is just less likely to be targeted for virus's; especially those small pesky ones most everyone picks up (porno surfers) which are usually designed to embed themselves into a specific OS (namely the windows OS) and while Apple may now control nearly 10% of the computer-market that still puts the Windows computers at an approximate 9 to 1 advantage over other OS' making it the logical choice for computer hackers or people who just feel like pissing others off.

Other than that; most everything on this list can be bypassed with a little bit of cash and/or knowledge of technology- Too bad for the Baby Boomers.]]>Oct 7th 2008 11:46PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/10/07/worlds-most-overrated-gadgets-and-technologies-14/http://www.switched.com/2008/10/07/worlds-most-overrated-gadgets-and-technologies-14/
we only recently (past few years) learned that they actually customize phones for the cell companies if they can, and that those customizations are like getting a prototype -- never know how well they are going to work (but we're the guinea pigs). and if not customized, that there are incompatibilities that will cause problems because they aren't 'talking' to our system correctly.

we were quite surprised to see that you all didn't have problems, since we have problems every day (one of us has a sony/ericsson and the other a motorola razor -- both using the top quality motorola bluetooth).

so, the author wasn't exaggerating -- some of us do have constant problems. yet, we wouldn't part with them unless something truly better came out.

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Macs are incredibly expensive and IMPOSSIBLE to upgrade. (Well not impossible they just have no cost-efficiency whatsoever).

Windows has so many viruses and other problems.

Linux is okay but it normally isn't worth the time to get drivers installed and all the other junk set up.

The only reliable operating systems are DOS and UNIX which both have not GUI and along with such have no problems

With the rising use of macs there is also a rise in multi-operating system viruses. While there aren't many they do exist.

Software is never perfect and neither is hardware.
I would like to install OS X Tiger on non-apple hardware (legally)]]>Nov 13th 2008 6:01PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/10/07/worlds-most-overrated-gadgets-and-technologies-14/http://www.switched.com/2008/10/07/worlds-most-overrated-gadgets-and-technologies-14/Nov 16th 2008 7:15AM