Apple's 10 worst products ever

[archipirata]

I still have an Apple TV. I even have the original black mouse, keyboard, and install disks. And it booted fine recently. Just can seem to throw it out. As a working computer though, it really did suck, though not as much as my powermac 6300CD, now that was a real turd.

[jmbuzeta]

I totally disagree including iTunes on your list. iPhones,Ipods,Ipads will be useless without it.

[JPK]

I agree with several of those, but I would also say a couple of those products would also make the best products list?

I can think of a lot worse products than iTunes or Mobieme. I would also move the round mouse upto the #1 position!

JPK

[voodoopenguin]

Black wrote:
Things I never knew:
G4 Cube died a natural death as sales of Mac Mini, which was relatively inexpensive, grew.
The Mac Mini came out while the Cube was still in production?

Ridiculous article, the Cube was stopped in July 2001 and the Mini didn't appear until January 2005.

Click on the slideshow to see the 10 worst products ever launched by Apple that were doomed for failure:

I would like all my failures to be like iTunes.

Paul

[deckeda]

10. Pippin
Yep. Poorly conceived and marketed. Doomed at the outset.

9. Round mouse
My hand still hurts.

8. Cube
Not applicable. Poor sales alone do not make a poor, let alone a "failed" product. See also IIfx.

7. MobileMe
Kinda agree here. They just never made it as competitive, as "must-have" as they should. Overall it just needed to be a little cheaper.

6. Apple///
Expensive without significant extra performance, so it belongs here.

5. ROKR E1
By Apple's standards of usability, a real failure yes. But putting iTunes onto a phone should be seen as foreshadowing, certainly. In other news, the Sony Soundman/Walkman was big and clunky at first.

4. Lisa
See Apple///, although it gets points for the graphical UI later improved upon on the Mac.

3. QuickTake
I can't fathom by what measurement this could be considered a failure. Because it didn't (again) sell like hotcakes? Ooh, I know, because all the Japanese companies had better, cheaper digital cameras available. Not.

2. iTunes
No, no no. It's Quicktime Windows users hate first, THEN iTunes. Windows users would rather use stuff called for example (and I am not making this up) foobar2000. Apropos, I'd say.

1. AppleTV
Sure, forget or minimize all it does better than any other media box and why that's important, let alone beneficial. After all, many of our otherwise esteemed members here do as well. (Cue the inevitable DiVX, AVI, WMP, Flash and other outcries.)

[freeradical]

This article should be ranked near the top of ten worst top-ten lists ever!

:jest:

[GGD]

I didn't see the PowerBook 5300 on that list.

[zeppo2]

Pretty bad list, as everyone has pointed out. I'd be tempted to put the pizza box Performa series here. Big, ugly, grey, slow, but paved the way for the return of Steve Jobs and his hiring of Jonathan Ivy and the focus on design in the iMac.

[btfc]

"Pretty bad list, as everyone has pointed out"


Yep. People who hate iTunes generally do not know how to use it.

[Mike Johnson]

What, no third generation Shuffle?

I like the round mouse.