Reply to post: Depends how you define failure...

Depends how you define failure...

There are those that had the market in their hands and let it go:

Wordperfect

Lotus 1-2-3

Sony Betamax

Kodak

MSN Messenger

Compuserve

Myspace

Friends Reunited

There are those which just died of old age:

Ceefax/Oracle

Prestel

Fax

There are those products which are just plain shocking or badly managed:

Windows ME

Xbox 360

Nokia Ngage

Windows Pen

OnDigital

Lotus Notes

Every mobile platform from Microsoft apart from Windows Mobile 7

Google Wave

IBM OS/2

Microsoft Zune

Amazon Fire Phone

There are those which sounded like a good idea but the market had moved on:

Blu-Ray

Minidisk

Iomega Zipdisk

There are those products which were innovative but were too ahead of their time or weren't good enough:

Apple Newton

Microsoft Band

Sinclair C5