the free market can be a competitiveplace where some products claim victoryover others welcome to watchmojo.com andtoday we're counting down our picks forthe top 10 products that kill'dcompetitors and the PlayStation 2 pushedits way to becoming the best-sellingconsole of all time for this list we'llbe taking a look at the products thatovercame their rivals either by takingover an established brand or by edgingout a product from the same era whetherfrom a more recent conflict or one thatplayed out decades before these are thesurviving products that withstood theodds just to be clear the product thatwas defeated does not necessarily haveto be dead and gone just overtake it atits peak blockbuster had 8000 storesworldwideget a bus tonight now the few remaininglocations will soon be holdinggoing-out-of-business sales number 10gmail killed hotmail with the dustsettled Google's electronic mail servicestands tall when was the last on usingyour email got you free stuff yet thiswas not always the case its competitorhotmail established in 1996 as one ofthe world's first webmail providers hada foothold for quite some timeI just log on check my messages but findout where I need to be next weddingsporting integration with Microsoftowned programs and being free to usehotmail certainly stood out until April1st 2004 when Google Inc launched theirsimply titled Gmail service with itsmore flexible interface greater amountof storage space and general polishGmail rose in popularity and lefthotmail to be slowly phased outMicrosoft has finally decided to shut urhotmail for good migrating all formerusers to its newly unveiled outlook.comnumber 9 dell killed gateway well yourcomputer quandary is easily solved bythe folks at dell just colored go onlinethey'll help you figure it out the worldof computer technology can definitely bea heated onetreat yourself to a delving spur onlaptopwith intelligent intel processors Dellyours is here such was the case with theconflict between Dell and Gateway twocompanies competing for the computerhardware market in the late 90s andearly 2000s with a gateway essential PCyou know exactly what you're gettingmonitor great software award winningtech support and free internet accesswhile Gateway buckled under the effectsof the dot-com bustnow thrived with its embrace of directsales and customizing one's PC to fitthe consumers intent struggling tocompete gateway scaled back itsoperations further and further it's atonce sad and fascinating Dell and Intelencourage you to do what you love andshare it with the world number eighttransformers killed go bots but robotcommand center leader one income toreach sold separatelysometimes success can be a fleetingthing take for instance the gobots lineof transforming toy robots introduced in1983 by Tonka the year before Hasbrolaunched the Transformers brand of toysdespite being similar in design andthemes the transformers proved to be themore enduring toy line while salesdropped for the Gobots after initialsuccesszero flip-top and you need a one eachsold separately in the end Tonka ceasedproduction in 1987 four years beforeHasbro would buy the gobots brandaltogether integrating them into theTransformers franchise it is time tostand with us and who's there is one ofyou at NBC I number 7 Internet Explorerkilled Netscape bills you know messageto the company was let's go find lots ofways for us to to now engage in this newbattle there was nothing quite like thebrowser Wars of yore in the 1990s theworld saw an influx of internet browserswith two of the most competitive beingMicrosoft's Internet Explorer andNetscape Navigator my Netscape has alimited internet access and free webaccelerator for just nine ninety-five amonth you know net zero charges youevery time you call for tech support forseveral years Netscape and Microsoftupdated their respective browsers at abreakneck pace though Microsoft'sgreater resources and decision to makeInternet Explorer free for Windows userseventually gave them the victorywe're like a deer in the headlights withMicrosoft in front of us so you knowwhat do we do what do we do you knowthey're gonna crush this they're gonnacrush this though netscape browser codestill lives on through mozilla firefoxit's clear that internet explorer wonits place in historynumber six the smartphone camera killedthe digital camera a picture can bewhatever you want it to be because nowKodak gives you the power to takepictures further cameras have always hadtheir place but the technology has seenits share of conflict with a 23megapixel camera I can catch all of themspecial or everyday momentsno matter the light condition with theadvent of the smartphone people havetaken to its plethora of featuresincluding cameras with increasingquality of images thus the digitalcamera has been overcome in spite ofbeing known for high quality photographyit said that from 2012 to 2013smartphone sales rose to over 1 billionwhile digital camera shipments fell byaround 30 percent it would seem themarket has spoken every day more photosare taken with the iPhone than any othercamera number 5 IBM killed Commodorecoming back to computers there was atime when Commodores stood tall from itsestablishment in 1954 Commodoreinternational made a name for itselfin the production of home computers fromthe Commodore pet to the Commodore 64 weasked the computers which one was betteron the basis of price and memory theApple 2 preferred the Commodore 64 thenwe asked the IBM and it picked theCommodore 64 unfortunately its rivalcompany IBM made strides in developingcomputing technology further than everbeforewhile Commodore was increasingly seen inthe 1980s as the producers of cheap anddisposable hardware this computer systemis another example of innovation at IBMin fact it's the most advanced voicerecognition system of its kind periodIBM's constant evolution and risingprofits coupled with Commodores existingtroubles may very well have led to thelatter company's bankruptcy in 1994 theCommodores kicking up with you are younumber four Sony Playstation 2 killedSega Dreamcast 9 you're gonna get rudeshut up why'd you pick Sony and Segaboth innovators both participants in theconsole wars Sega's final home consolewould be the Dreamcast built to cutcosts and contrast it's more expensivepredecessor the Sega Saturn Sega Saturnit's how play the game while theDreamcast started out with a stronglaunch in America in the late 90s thepublic's interest in the system soonfaded only to be replaced by a growingfixation with the then upcoming SonyPlaystation 2 Sony Playstation 2 will bethe biggest thing to come along since TVwas invented the buzz on this product isthat straw Sony's eventual embrace ofthird-party developers and generalfinancial security contrasted Sega'sfinancial losses and limited third-partysupport leading the ps2 to succeed wherethe Dreamcast could not gee number threeNetflix killed Blockbuster farewellrental stores your time has passedonce upon a time video rental chainssuch as Blockbuster cornered the marketin terms of providing people with filmstelevision and other media but get realyou rather be playing video games youcan rent them from Blockbuster howeverthat all changed with the 1997 foundingof Netflix initially a video rentalservice that transitioned into mediastreaming sometimes you even think Iwant to fucking Mikey in prison it is Ithink you in the wrong placesee that's what got you in here in thefirst place attitude the ease of viewingfilms and TV on Netflix matched by areasonable service fee ensured thedownfall of traditional rental outlets Ihave Netflix account with searchkeywords prison escape I have seen everyprison movie ever madeincluding blockbusters liquidation as of2014 in a few weeks tours like this willsimply be a memory of Americana and formost folks a very good memory number 2Facebook killed myspace you guys onmyspace or two social media servicesenter one service leaves acquired byNews Corporation in 2005 myspace stoodtall as the world's largest socialnetworking site for three years evenbriefly surpassing Google as the mostvisited site in America Tom startedmyspace just to get friends I knowso they say the more friends you have onmyspace the less friends you have inreal life that all changed with therising appeal of Facebook which wasbased around fulfilling the desires anddemands of users rather than sticking toa firm portal strategy myspace is justreal busy with a lot of links a lot ofads and a little too much action goingon and when you navigate pages you'realso at the mercy of the users personallayout which can be painful contrastingwith my spaces owner mandated planningthis looser approach served Facebookwell their worldwide visitor count rowswhile myspace is user count steadilyshrink you hate bloggers you mockTwitter you don't even have a Facebookpage you're the one who doesn't existbefore we unveil our number one pickhere are some honorable mentionsshould be funthe Snuggie keeps you totally warm andgives you the freedom to use your handsso now you can work the remote or read abook in total warmth and comfort in factyou'll find endless places to cover upthis winter with the soft fleecy warmthof the Slanket various theories persistabout why Oreo won the cookie war eventhough Hydrox was invented first mostagree that the name wasn't tasty andthat Oreo outspent them in advertisingsubscribe to playboy and start enjoyinglife to its fullest I like my spine atingle I never missed a singleaustralian penthouse don't be a rapidnumber one the iphone killed theblackberry dun dundun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dunthough the iPods triumph over mp3players is certainly notable it's theiPhone success that draws our attentionfor several years BlackBerry'smulti-purpose devices had a strongfoothold in the market particularly withtheir focus on email services yet whenApple's iPhone device came on the scenewith its sleeker interface and higherquality of design blackberries struggledto compete the glory days of thetrackball of course they are over itsmarket value is plummeted for more than85 billion dollars to about five and ahalf billion while they did make effortsto challenge Apple blackberries share inthe market fell while Apple rose toprominence truly there can be only oneif it's not an iPhone do you agree withour list Facebook reigns victorious inanother slobberknockerwhat competition killing productinterests you for more productive top10s published every day be sure tosubscribe to watchmojo.com we havepeople to see possibilities to pursueand moments big and small to liveyou
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