Macworld.com – If thereâs an overused word in our online lexicon, itâs âfail.â Fail, fail, fail, everything is fail. Itâs so overused that people need to use the adjective âEPICâ so you know theyâre really serious this time about something being âFAIL.â Not surprisingly, Apple has this four-letter word hurled at it a lot. Plus, a major netbook vendor admits to failing in the shadow of the iPad and Flash? FAIL.