Recent tech history is littered with the corpses of failed tablets

[Wireless News]

Whom the gods wish to destroy, first they have enter the tablet market. After Microsoft announced yesterday that it was writing off $900 million due to excess Surface RT inventory, it became just the latest company to have failed to create a tablet capable of competing with Apple’s iPad and cheaper Android tablets such as the Amazon Kindle Fire. Indeed, when you look back over the past few years, it’s surprising to see how many companies released tablets that sold so incredibly poorly that many of them haven’t ever bothered to try their hands at making tablets again. For those who enjoy reliving car crashes, then, here is a recap of some of the biggest tablet flops that we’ve seen

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