Apple's 10 worst products ever

[Filliam H. Muffman]

I almost reported the original post. Articles like this are frequently click bait. I am too lazy to search but there was a nearly identical article about a month ago.

[Grateful11]

I've owned at least 3 Cubes over the years and this person must be nuts, my Cube is offended by this, I had
talk with it and it's ok now.

The 6200CD Performa should be on there, owned one of those, d@mn that thing was slow.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

THIS should have been on that list, probably near the top:



The Apple iPod Hi-Fi. I think Apple sold, like, seven of these.

[hal]

Just say NO to 10 page slide show 'articles'!

[Article Accelerator]

Speedy wrote:
8 - Cube
5 - Motorola ROKR E1
4 - Lisa
3 - QuickTake camera
2 - iTunes
1 - Apple TV

No, not the worst to all those, and especially no to Apple TV. This product that they apparently deemed worst-of-the-worst is by far the best selling video streamer device with 55% market share:

Apple Dominates Video Streamer Market

Beyond that, consider what the combination of iPad, Apple TV, and AirPlay brings:

iPad 2 AirPlay Mirroring Video Walkthrough – Most Amazing Tech Feature Ever

Worst-of-the-worst my ass!

And by the way, WTH, is a Motorola product doing on an Apple products list? This article is just click bait FUD. Apple's worst are generally better than competitors' best.

[silvarios]

Grateful11 wrote:
I've owned at least 3 Cubes over the years and this person must be nuts, my Cube is offended by this, I had
talk with it and it's ok now.

The 6200CD Performa should be on there, owned one of those, d@mn that thing was slow.

The Cube was expensive, did not actually save desk space (the Cube, audio adapter, and power supply made for a sprawling mess and that is before you add speakers, keyboard, mouse, and display), and not as easy to upgrade as the Power Mac. The iMac was cheaper at the time and so was the entry level Power Mac G4. I went with the top of the line iMac and never regretted it.

I do agree that the 6200 was a dog. Not sure why the Cube made the list and not the 5200/5300/6200/6300 (excepting the fine 6360). Those were true dogs.

[silvarios]

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

BS. I've used iTunes since version 2. I don't hate it on the Mac, but neither do I love it.

As mentioned, on Windows, people hate QuickTIme first, and then iTunes second. As a heavy iTunes user, I am pained when I need to use iTunes on Windows. I've never gotten the thing to work correctly, going back to the original Windows release. There's always some bug that only effects Windows iTunes.

[silvarios]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
THIS should have been on that list, probably near the top:

The Apple iPod Hi-Fi. I think Apple sold, like, seven of these.

No kidding.

[silvarios]

Mike Johnson wrote:
What, no third generation Shuffle?

Agree again.

[silvarios]

deckeda wrote:
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.

Because it was a piece of crap, even for the time. The whole market for digital cameras was craptastic. Devices were immature and limited compared to traditional cameras. I own a QuickTake 150, believe me, it is nothing to brag about. A disposable camera was a better product.