Cisco to End "Cius" Tablet

Cisco will no longer invest in the Cisco Cius tablet form factor, and no further enhancements will be made to the current Cius endpoint beyond what’s available today, Cisco says.

Cisco might continue to offer Cius "in a limited fashion" to customers with specific needs or use cases.

For a company that is "re-prioritizing" its efforts and ditching product lines that offer slim hopes for market leadership, the abandonment of any single product would not be unusual.

But the move might illustrate in a larger sense how hard it is for large service providers and large application and software firms with an enterprise orientation to create products for consumers or even business customers, in a market where consumer grade hardware is winning the day.