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In general, failure refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective. It may be viewed as the opposite of success.

Commercial failures

A commercial failure is a product that does not reach expectations of success, failing to come even close. A major flop goes one step further and is recognized for its complete lack of success.

• For flops in computer and video gaming, see List of commercial failures in video gaming.
• For company failures related to the 1997–2001 Dot-com bubble, see Dot-com company.
• See also Vaporware.

Other failures

• For military disasters, see the list of military disasters.
• For events that were highly anticipated but either did not happen or turned out to be disappointing, see Non-event.

See also

Miserable failure Cascading failure Debugging Failure analysis Failure mode Failure rate Murphy's law New product development Non-event Power outage

Product Product management Single point of failure Sod's Law Structural failure System accident Tensile strength White elephant Anomaly in software Fiasco Forensic engineering George W. Bush Bibliography Charles Perrow, Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies, New Tork: Basic Books, 1984. Paperback reprint, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-691-00412-9 Sandage, Scott A. Born Losers: A History of Failure in America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-674-01510-X, ISBN 0-674-02107-X. Gay, Jared I. Enough Idle Chit-chat, Let's RPG!: An in-depth analysis of Toad's failures Some Place, Australia. ISBN 0-867-53090-X Notes and references This article has an unclear citation style. The references used may be made clearer with a different or consistent style of citation and footnoting. (Learn how and when to remove this message) External links Failure magazine Designing Building Failures

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