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Bob was hilariously bad.

But I never got the impression it was more than a weird experiment, failed, but I dunno about "biggest flop" as the stakes weren't that high. 95 was coming and clearly the way forward.

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It's a clickbait title.

If we were serious about biggest flops, we'd be talking about my beloved Lumia WP.

The Lumia series of phones had solid hardware but Windows Phone OS was crap, so the product line itself could never be competitive enough; I mean Nokia singlehandedly died at the braindead decision to go with Windows Phone and not Android. So if you're talking about phones, then I'd say it was Windows Phone OS that was the biggest flop, not the hardware.

I would argue that Nokia phones with windows OS was pretty successful. Everyone I know who had an early Lumia loved it.

It was the purchase of Nokias mobile division by Microsoft that killed it.

Windows Phone OS was really slick actually, I used a Lumia with it for a long time. I loved live tiles, very good idea on a phone.

Microsoft's stewardship over their entire smartphone campaign, however, was so miserable, it's kind of impressive.

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