The Biggest Tech Fails and Flops of 2011

If you like train wrecks, 2011 was a fascinating year in personal technology. From unpopular tablets to security blunders to bad management, failures and flops seemed to be the rule, not the exception. Here are 2011's biggest tech blunders.

HP TouchPad/WebOS

Hewlett-Packard was a land of confusion in 2011. It abandoned its WebOS mobile operating system and sold off its HP Touchpad tablets in a fire sale, letting down countless developers who invested in the platform and businesses and consumers hoping to take a chance on the OS. Making matters worse, HP announced in August that it would spin off or sell its PC business, only to say in October after Meg Whitman became CEO that the company, in fact, would be keeping its PC business intact.

 

By Jared Newman, PCWorld

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