What Will Be the Next Ten Failed Electronic Devices?

CDs and CD players will probably go the way of the Dodo bird. Which is really sad for me. I just got used to them, they sound good, (usually), and I don't want to buy an Ipad or whatever.

On a happier note, vinyl is experiencing a resurgence. I'm ready this time. Back in the day my albums didn't sound so good after spilling beer and cleaning weed on them. Don't turn me in, I'm talking 30+ years ago.

Writable CDs (and even DVDs) used for portable or in-vehicle music will likely be the next to go. SD cards have ludricously large capacity, small size and are inexpensive nowdays. I can pick up a 64GB microSD card for around $82 USD.

Yes they will stick around for standard consumer sales and basic backup, but their days are numbered for personal and business data backup (I see a 'cloud' (storage) on the horizon).

On a side note I have all but given up on DVD backup and switched to removable hard drive backup. You just cannot beat the price and reliability, and I have noticed my carefully stored quality-brand DVDs from around 12 years ago are starting to become unreadable (not very helpful for a backup). Even data transfer via USB2.0 is faster than burning 20 or 30 DVDs.

I'm asking for devices that failed to launch or were greatly challenged

How about the HP Tablet?

Bonus points for making itself far, far, far, far more wanted and desirable than there were tablets available. We sold out in an hour or two down here in the Australia and NZ, and that was only to select and quick distributor employees (not even management who wanted one got one).

Come on HP you have got the marketing model right, give us the product back!

it became wildly popular because of two factors, it was being sold by HP at a very low price with the expectation that it would be an orphan, but the Android hacking community felt that they were close to being able to put android on it so they all wanted it assuming that they could breathe new life into the tablet.

Sorry about that, I was thinking obsolescence. I threw your whole thread off track.

I'll be waiting for my payback.

Don't hold your breath my memory won't help in that regard, LOL...it'll happen by accident...

something made with lead free solder I'm sure.

I suspect "cloud computing" should be on your list, but it is probably to ephemeral to find...

DVD and Blue Ray are already dead. Broadband is going to kill many things