The Tablet Graveyard: 5 Failed Gadgets
(MainStreet) -- When Steve Jobs, the former CEO of Apple, introduced the iPad tablet in the beginning of 2010, no one could say for sure whether it would be the company's biggest success or just an over-hyped failure. By the end of the year, though, 15 million iPads had been sold, compared with 2 million tablets sold by other brands. Still, by March of this year there were more than 100 different tablets on sale.
In a very real sense, the success of the iPad attracted some of the biggest names in the technology world to try their luck in the burgeoning market, but only a few ended up with even a fraction of the sales Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) device enjoyed, forcing many companies to rethink their investments in the tablet area.
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