#29: The Amazon Fire Phone
We’re all quite familiar with Amazon–it’s one of the biggest and most successful companies in the world—and most of us use their services. But even the best companies have experienced failure, and Amazon’s Fire Phone is a great example of that. The Fire Phone only stayed on the market for a year before Amazon made the decision to remove it from stores.
While it was intended to be the best new smartphone choice, the Fire Phone came with a host of problems. First off, it was entirely too expensive for the average user. It was also only compatible with Amazon apps and users, which was problematic because Apple and Samsung had already made big names for themselves in the smartphone market at the time.