When I voted in their poll I noted that only 1% had selected the eBook option. This means that most people do not regard it as a major (or rather the major) flop. Some of the items were groundbreaking such as the Apple Message Pad, most were efforts to buck a trend that was already moving in another direction. eBooks is the direction and the only things holding it back are a lack of standardization and publishers still stuck in the early 20th century -- copyright laws in place but buggy whips still in wide use.
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