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Most Likely to Fail: Twitter and Kindle…(Wrong!)


Most Likely to Fail: Twitter and Kindle…………(Wrong!)I would have bet my beloved iPhone at the start of 2008 that two products doomed to failure were the electronic book Kindle and the follow-me technology Twitter. Sure as Hillary Clinton was going to win the democratic presidential nomination, Kindle and Twitter were soon to join the Newton, iSmell (photo at left), and the Free-PC on the Technology Pile of Irrelevance.