Cisco drops Cius tablets after the BYOD crush, plans upgrade to Android 4.0 out of kindness

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Cisco had grand plans for a [Cius tablet][3] on every fast-paced executive's desk, but those dreams appear to have been dashed not long after [getting off the ground][4]. Senior VP OJ Winge says the company will "no longer invest" in the design, leaving the already rather creaky Android 2.2-based, 7-inch tablet to an eternal slumber outside of occasional specialized orders. It's not hard to see what hastened the Cius to its early demise, as Winge pins it on companies and customers encouraging a BYOD (bring your own device) strategy that likely brought more than a few [iPads][5] and [beefier Android tablets][6] into the space Cisco wanted to occupy. Before existing Cius owners start [videoconferencing][7] with themselves out of sheer despondence, though, there's a silver lining: the company now expects to take the Cius' firmware all the way from Android 2.2 to 4.0 in one fell swoop near the end of the summer. You may not be living Cisco's [2010-era vision][8], but at least you'll have [Chrome for Android][9].

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