Another year is just about done, so we're looking back at the biggest flops in the tech world for 2011.
Our list is made up companies, products, or features that launched between November 2010 and November 2011, and failed to make a dent.
The one consistent theme to our list? It was a bad year to try to beat the iPad.
Read on to find out why ...
#15 The Daily didn't set the world on fire
The Daily was a victim of its own hype. It was announced at a huge press conference with Apple executives and News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch. The iPad-only newspaper was supposed to be the wave of the future. It didn't happen.
That said, it's not a total failure. The Daily was the third highest grossing app in the App Store for the iPad in 2011, according to Apple's "iTunes Rewind," which is a look back at the year in apps.
#14 The Gmail iPhone app was weak
There was a lot of hype around the introduction of a Gmail app. Google was finally going to have an iOS app that was good. Well, that didn't happen. Instead it released a crappy app that was mostly just a copy of the web. Google had to pull the app the day it went live because it was so buggy.
#13 The Motorola Atrix laptop-dock is ahead of its time
Motorola introduced the Atrix, an Android phone with a killer twist: You could use it to power a laptop. It's one of those ideas tech people think is cool in theory. One small gadget to power all your gadgets. While the world might be moving towards something like this, it's not there yet. The Atrix laptop dock was a flop.
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