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A '''flop'''  or '''product failure''' is a [[product (business)|product]] that doesn't reach expectations of success, failing to come even close. A major flop goes one step further and is recognized for its almost complete lack of success.

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* The [[Apple Computer|Apple]] [[Apple Pippin|Pippin]], a games console based on [[MacOS]] and the [[PowerPC]] - was abandoned before production, clearly was unlikely to have succeeded.

===Miscellaneous commercial flops===
* The [[1982 World's Fair]] in [[Knoxville, Tennessee]]
* The [[Betamax]] [[VCR]] system - after some initial suc
cess it was soundly beaten in the marketplace by [[VHS]]. Betamax failed in part because it was not an open standard.
* The [[Digital Compact Cassette]] - a format introduced by [[Philips]], which lost out to [[Minidisc]] and [[CD-R]]
* [[DIVX]], a take-off on [[DVD]] that required users to pay per viewing. Retail electronics giant and DIVX backer [[Circuit City]] lost about $200m over the fiasco.
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* The [[Tanganyika groundnut scheme]], a plan by [[Clement Attlee]]'s [[British government]], financed by British tax-payers, to cultivate tracts of what is now [[Tanzania]] with [[peanuts]].

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==Flops in science and engineering==

A scientific flop may be something that took years of man-hours and a lot of money to complete (or perhaps never completed) and ended in failure.

===Technical failures in aerospace===

* The [[Brewster Buffalo]] - this [[World War II]] [[fighter aircraft]] turned out to be no match for [[Axis Powers|Axis]] fighters
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*The [[UK Conservative Party|Conservative Party]]'s performance at the [[1997 UK general election|1997 general election]], and also at  [[2001 UK general election|2001 general election]].  In both [[General Election]]s the Conservatives were routed disasterously.  Their showing was both times far worse than that of Michael Foot.
==See also==

* [[product management]]
* [[management]]
* [[new product development]]
* [[product (business)|product]]