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Google's Nexus 7 might qualify. A really great tablet at an affordable price that got one minor refresh then was cancelled.

I see Palm already mentioned. Neo Geo.

Obviously everything I have done was great--too advanced for its time to succeed.

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And the Nexus 5 phone. Lightweight, durable plastic body, good hardware, not ridiculously large... I still havent seen a spiritual successor

I went from the Nexus 5 to Nexus 5x to pixel 1. They all feel like a newer version of the previous to me.

We had 3 different Nexus 5X phones die via a bootloop. All bought from different vendors.

100% death rate.

And yes, I know there was a "fix" released last year. Didn't work for any of them.

Great cheap phones other than that. Really good cameras on them.

I went through 2 Nexus 5x's. Even when they weren't being bricked, they were laggy as hell. I'd constantly be waiting 5 seconds for actions to register.

I moved from the Nexus 5 to the Motorola G series of phones. Cheap but not too fast.

I still use my Nexus 7 almost daily! I have the refreshed model with the 1080p screen, and it's still going strong. Not the fastest or most up to date tablet, but internet browsing, email, and basic things all still work flawlessly.

Great product, competitive sector.

I have the first gen, which was sadly made unusable due to flash write speeds.

Somehow my 6 year old second gen Nexus 7's battery still works reasonably well and I have no idea how. I've been through dozens of batteries on Galaxy phones in that time.

Neo Geo as in the game platform from SNK? I’d argue it was very successful, being supported for 14 years. The thing is the arcade version of it was the real product, the home version was more a novelty.

I adored my Nexus 7 and really wish Google would do it again. On the other hand it's hard to compete with Apple's A12 that's found in their modern iPad line up. Still, I'd gladly take less performance at half the price to stay in the Google ecosystem. It's why I have a Pixel instead of an iPhone despite their being closer in price; I'm not down for the secondary rent of paying for iTunes subscriptions and splitting photos or data across two platforms.

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