Some of the article is just clickbait driven nostalgia, to be honest, but nonetheless, I still have some thoughts about these.

• Google Glasses failed because the price was completely wrong, and the technology came way too early.
• No comment on the Newton. I’ve never looked into it.
• The real reason Vista failed is because it was mass-deployed on machines that were branded as Vista ready, while failing to meet minimum requirements. This is both Microsoft’s fault, and a fault of each vendor who did that.
• Zune was awesome, but good luck competing with Apple. They would sell you gold-plated flipflops if they could, and Microsoft’s leadership couldn’t convince you to buy anything with their best efforts.
• The Blackberry got what it deserved, for sure.
• I still don’t understand Ping
• The N-Gage was a great idea with horrible execution, especially considering where the speaker was, on both of these phones. I kinda wanted the QD but way better stuff came out shortly after. The spirit definitely lived on, with the one-off Sony Ericsson PSP phone
• The Nintendo VB is just something remarkably stupid
• The HP pad is yet another example of companies pushing out e-waste just to pretend they’re competitive with the market leader
• Note 7 is a prime example of pushing out hardware without looking at potential edge-cases with catastrophic issues, and hoping those would just never happen