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Best & Worst of Tech – 2011

By Brian | January 2, 2012 | Share on Facebook

‘Tis the season for “Best of” and “Worst of” lists, I guess, but I found these lists from CNET pretty thought provoking:

The Top 5 Tech Winners of 2011

5) The Amazon Kindle Fire
4) The MacBook Air
3) The iPad 2
2) The iPhone 4S
1) Motorola Droid Razr

The Top 5 Tech Disappointments of 2011

5) Electric Cars
4) iCloud
3) Chrome Books
2) 3D TV
1) Non-iPad tablets

Read beyond the break for my thoughts on these items, as well as the embedded CNET Videos…

My Top 5

My Top 5 list would have been similar to CNET’s, although I might quibble with the ordering. 2011 will likely be remembered as the year tablets took off, and since the

Topics: Tech Talk | 3 Comments »

3 Responses to “Best & Worst of Tech – 2011”

  1. Joe Woods says at January 2nd, 2012 at 10:20 pm :
    iCloud is truly a mixed bag.
    For its complexity and heavy operating overhead, if should be on the bad list.
    For all the sync-ing and especially PhotoStream, it belongs on a good list.
    The author is correct. When the rough edges are fixed, it should be a real gem.

  2. Konstantin says at January 3rd, 2012 at 10:46 am :
    I would disagree on the point on the tablets. I’ve talked to a bunch of people who own either Xoom or Galaxy Tab are extremely happy with them, me including. Granted they are not mainstream, or don’t advertise themselves as mainstream and it affected their sales, but android tablets overall, even high ended ones are a pretty good deal.

  3. Brian says at January 3rd, 2012 at 2:45 pm :
    @Konstantin – I’m glad to hear you’re happy with your tablet, but that’s not the question. The question is, assuming you paid about the same money, are you happier than you’d have been with an iPad 2?

    Specifically, I think, I’d expect there to be new apps available on the iPad 2 before they are available elsewhere, leaving you feeling like you’re missing something or having to wait too long for something. Have you not exerienced this? If not, then maybe Apple’s dominance in that slice of the market is purely the reputation that the “first-in” player gets by default?