A recent Smart Money article on AOL examined five gadgets that it said consumers should refrain from buying right now. Normally, early adopters and consumer-electronics junkies would be the affected parties here, but the article's warnings carry significant investing implications, since all of the appliances it singled out have ties to popular, publicly traded companies.
1. iPhone
2. OLED TVs
3. Blu-ray
4. Digital readers
5. Windows Vista
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
I can only speak about BD. Blu-ray is costly but it is a smart investment though.
It's right about those 5 things.
1. The iPhone will have a new generation coming out soon that will have more features.. So why buy one now and have to spend more money to get the new version.
Plus there's also many other companies working to make there devices more sexy looking like the iPhone. (Phones have had features the iPhone has for a long time now..and touch screens.. iPhone isn't innovative.. It just has a nice design and is over hyped.)
2. OLED screens. OLED manufacturing is still at a costly stage. But in the coming years it is expected to drop exponentially.
3. Blue-ray is also very costly right now. The price will drop..alot.
4. meh
5. Well, I'm pretty sure most people have there own views on Vista. And many will say to hold out until Windows 7 comes out.
Why? Well it will burn down your house! :D
darn it i have 3 out of 5 on the list :(
i don't get it..
how can Vista be one of the top 5 'gadgets'.. vista is first of all too crap to be in the top 5 (i think) and its not even a gadgets, it just a piece of software which doesn't have to be expensive *coughtorrentcoughrapidshareco ugh*