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* As mentioned in [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18807_how-xerox-invented-information-age-and-gave-it-away.html this]] ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' article, Xerox is infamous for this in the computer industry. While they pioneered the personal computer long before Apple and IBM, their sales strategy was flawed and ultimately backfired. As a result, several of the technologies developed at their research facility PARC – the graphical user interface, the mouse, networking, e-mail, laser printing, object-oriented programming and other equally important pillars for today's computer industry – were dismissed and abandoned so other companies could build billion-dollar empires around those technologies. Why? Because the East Coast-based management of Xerox Corporation wasn't interested in anything that had no direct application to photocopying. You may bang your head against the wall now (they sure did).
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* As mentioned in [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18807_how-xerox-invented-information-age-and-gave-it-away.html this]] ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' article, Xerox is infamous for this in the computer industry. While they pioneered the personal computer long before Apple and IBM, their sales strategy was flawed and ultimately backfired. As a result, several of the technologies developed at their research facility PARC – the graphical user interface, the mouse, networking, e-mail, laser printing, object-oriented programming and other equally important pillars for today's computer industry – were dismissed and abandoned so other companies could build billion-dollar empires around those technologies. Why? Because the East Coast-based management of Xerox Corporation wasn't interested in anything that had no direct application to photocopying. And, just to add insult to injury, since management couldn't see the worth of anything those weird nerds at PARC were doing, they had no objections to other weird nerds coming in to tour the facility and see what was being worked on, which is how Steve Jobs, among others, got firsthand exposure to the technologies he would build his billion-dolar empires around. You may bang your head against the wall now (they sure did).
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* Similar to how video game industry analysts at the start of the 2010s, phone and web games would displace console and portable game systems to the point of killing them off, computer industry analysts thought that after the rise of the smartphone and eventually tablets such as the [=iPad=], that traditional desktop and laptop computers would be killed off. It got to the point that Apple started claiming their mobile devices would bring in the "Post PC Era." However, traditional computers didn't die off. If anything during the 2010s, the average person replaced their computer for something better less frequently. With COVID-19 lockdowns, the laptop and desktop computer industry received a boon as people realized that mobile devices weren't really as convenient anymore and people needed upgrades to host their virtual meetings, play games, or do other activities.
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* Similar to how video game industry analysts at the start of the 2010s, thought phone and web games would displace console and portable game systems to the point of killing them off, computer industry analysts thought that after the rise of the smartphone and eventually tablets such as the [=iPad=], that traditional desktop and laptop computers would be killed off. It got to the point that Apple started claiming their mobile devices would bring in the "Post PC Era." However, traditional computers didn't die off. If anything during the 2010s, the average person replaced their computer for something better less frequently. With COVID-19 lockdowns, the laptop and desktop computer industry received a boon as people realized that mobile devices weren't really as convenient anymore and people needed upgrades to host their virtual meetings, play games, or do other activities.
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* During much of the development of the Boeing 747 - easily one of ''the'' most iconic jet airplanes and one of two or three a layperson can name and recognize - it was seen as a "demotion" within Boeing to be assigned there instead of the "cool" 2707 supersonic plane. Ironically it was in no small part precisely ''because'' it was seen as such an afterthought that many of the things that made the 747 so incredibly successful and iconic happened. It was determined early on that it ''had to'' be usable for freight as soon everybody would be flying supersonic and thus the only possible use for subsonic planes would be cargo. So the nose door was developed which still allows the 747 to load bigger pieces of cargo than almost any other airliner.[[note]]Aside from special designs like the modified Airbus Beluga or the Antonov An-225 Mriya (of which only one was ever built)[[/note]] The nose door necessitated a higher cockpit and for aerodynamic reasons there couldn't just be a straight wall behind the cockpit, so the iconic "hump" came about almost by accident. The jumbo's four engines also gave it good range over water in the days before ETOPS. The fact that Boeing management didn't much care for the project meant key customers like [=PanAm=] had unprecedented input on the design of the plane, getting a plane that was very much exactly what they wanted. Boeing was also successful in convincing European buyers (no European planemaker would even attempt something on the 747 scale until the A380) and Lufthansa has ordered a passenger version of every significant variant, including the 747-100, the 747-200, the 747-400 and finally the 747-8I (for which they were launch customer and almost the only one to care about the passenger, not the freight, variant) - brand and product loyalty over half a century.
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* During much of the development of the Boeing 747 - easily one of ''the'' most iconic jet airplanes and one of two or three a layperson can name and recognize - it was seen as a "demotion" within Boeing to be assigned there instead of the "cool" 2707 supersonic plane. Ironically it was in no small part precisely ''because'' it was seen as such an afterthought that many of the things that made the 747 so incredibly successful and iconic happened. It was determined early on that it ''had to'' be usable for freight as soon everybody would be flying supersonic and thus the only possible use for subsonic planes would be cargo. So the nose door was developed which still allows the 747 to load bigger pieces of cargo than almost any other airliner.[[note]]Aside from special designs like the modified Airbus Beluga or the Antonov An-225 Mriya (of which only one was ever built)[[/note]] built, and that one was destroyed in 2022 during the Russia-Ukraine war)[[/note]] The nose door necessitated a higher cockpit and for aerodynamic reasons there couldn't just be a straight wall behind the cockpit, so the iconic "hump" came about almost by accident. The jumbo's four engines also gave it good range over water in the days before ETOPS. The fact that Boeing management didn't much care for the project meant key customers like [=PanAm=] had unprecedented input on the design of the plane, getting a plane that was very much exactly what they wanted. Boeing was also successful in convincing European buyers (no European planemaker would even attempt something on the 747 scale until the A380) and Lufthansa has ordered a passenger version of every significant variant, including the 747-100, the 747-200, the 747-400 and finally the 747-8I (for which they were launch customer and almost the only one to care about the passenger, not the freight, variant) - brand and product loyalty over half a century.
