Top Ten Apple Products Which Flopped

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To remove any doubt that all apple users are fanboi's . . . love em or hate em . . . . the list as compiled by Newlaunches.com

No 10 - Apple Cyberdog
No 9 - Taligent
No 8 - Apple EWorld
No 7 - Apple Pippin
No 6 - 20th Anniversary Macintosh
No 5 - Motorola ROKR
No 4 - Macintosh TV
No 3 - Macintosh Portable
No 2 - Apple Lisa
No 1 - Apple Newton

Full article can be found here - http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/top_10_apple_products_which_flopped.php

As seen on Digg.com - with comments galore.
 
They forgot about Copeland which was their Vista like followup to Mac OS 9 which never shipped ... instead they bought NeXT and NeXT OS morphed into OS X.
 
Maybe it just didnt make their top 10? :)
 
bwana said:
Maybe it just didnt make their top 10? :)
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So why did they feature Taligent which was just a pie in the sky go nowhere research project ???.

The failure of Copeland was even more dire for Apple than Taligent ... heck at the time they even looked at Windows NT with Apple enhancements as an option :D.
 
tibby.dude said:
So why did they feature Taligent which was just a pie in the sky go nowhere research project ???.
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You should ask them - it's their list :) I noticed someone queried it in the comments section.
 
Well, whilst I would say that whilst the Newton and Mac Portable were flops, they created entire new markets
 
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I am with JStrike on that one ... My dad had a "Portable computer", roundabout the mid 80's that looked pretty much the same as the Mac Portable
 
this all is only proving, that you can't plan success.

My best example is the GSM SMS service; what was at first a free product developed itself into one of the biggest cash cows in history.
 
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