Stillborn in a sentence as an adjective

I am one of the very people he mentioned with a bunch of stillborn Twitter lists.

The reason Google stopped developing Buzz is because it was stillborn.

If Microsoft thinks that they can operate the same way, the windows phone platform will be stillborn.

It breathed new life into a stillborn category by tearing down that category and reinventing it.

Not one of their thousands and thousands of ancestors managed to be killed before procreating!In another sense, everyone alive today is lucky they weren't stillborn.

There is a whole political dimension to this in terms of getting zoning, approvals, etc... and the last thing he needs is for it to be stillborn because a bunch of politicians hear it "was tried and failed".

Are they going to make Windows 8 tablets?>HPs wording up above leaves things a bit vague, with at least two potential routes left open: licensing webOS to othersWhy would anyone license something that's basically stillborn even with a company as big as HP pushing it?

> Why would anyone license something that's basically stillborn even with a company as big as HP pushing it?Remember the word license here has multiple meanings ... I read it as a coded message to the other players - start getting ready to "license our patents" or get ready to be sued.

Stillborn definitions

adjective

failing to accomplish an intended result; "an abortive revolt"; "a stillborn plot to assassinate the President"

See also: abortive unsuccessful

adjective

(of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn; "a stillborn baby"