Worst Apple products of all time.

poppy10_2

Slashdot has an interesting link to a story on the top 10 worst Apple products of all time. Worth a look.

The top ten, for those that can't be bothered to scroll through the article, is reproduced below, after this completely unrelated image:




Top 10 Worst Apple products of all time

10. QuickTake (1994) - Digital camera
9. Pippin (1995) - Games console
8. iPod Hi-Fi (2006) - Speaker dock
7. PowerPC (1994-2006) - seems like a silly inclusion to me. It's a processor, not an Apple product (although Apple were involved in its development) and for a long time was seen as superior to Intel.
6. Mac OS9 (1999) - Operating system
5. eWorld (1992) - Apple's limited 'walled garden' internet (only $8/hr!)
4. Macintosh Performa (1992-97) - Desktop computer
3. 'Hockey Puck' Mouse (1998) - unusably round mouse
2. 20th Anniversary Mac (1998) - $9,000 'special edition' mac
1. Apple III (1980-84) - the mac that finally lost the war to IBM compatible/MS-DOS PCs

Surprised there is no Apple Newton on the list - I always thought that was widely seen as Apple's biggest failure, but maybe the iPad has led to a surge in nostalgia for Apple's first touchscreen device.

turbobob

Agree that Power PC is a silly inclusion. Its not even an Apple product really, it was a joint venture between IBM, Apple and Motorola and lives on in Xbox360's amongst other things.

Newton is a surprising exclusion. The Apple Lisa was another big failure.

poppy10_2

Would have also liked to have seen iTunes and QuickTime on the list, both hugely bloated slow beasts

turbobob

Actually I don't mind either - on my Mac Windows versions however are most definitely bloated resource hogs..

viv0147

When the wheel was invented it was nowhere as good as todays wheel

diable

Apple Newton

HO87

poppy10 wrote: »

Would have also liked to have seen iTunes and QuickTime on the list, both hugely bloated slow beasts

:T Hear, hear. Avoid QT like the plague and use Songbird, even though it was a bit glitchy in its initial iterations.

Marty_J

I don't agree with everything on there, but by and large it's a good list.

I remember having to use Performas in school with the awful At Ease desktop (which should have been on the list).

The Newton wasn't a failure and in many ways was just ahead of its time (as this article demonstrates). Its development led to Apple's development of the iPhone and now the iPad.

Also, I totally disagree that QuickTime and iTunes should be on there. QuickTime was massively influential in the development of digital video, and it still is; the mp4 file format is based upon QuickTime. And I don't see how QuickTime could be considered by anyone to be bloated.

And iTunes is a fantastic application if you have the good sense to use a Mac.

prowla

The worst product that they currently sell has to be their keyboards; a definite case of form over function, where the Enter key has been chopped off so that it fits into the layout neatly.

The Newton was a forward-thinking machine that failed not because it wasn't good, but because it wasn't worth the money they were asking.

sickparrot

Anything with a battery you can't replace.

Oh, hang on, that's everything.:(

Unrelated image? Boxxy is always related.

neneromanova

poppy10 wrote: »

3. 'Hockey Puck' Mouse (1998) - unusably round mouse

I always quite liked this mouse...but then again I'm weird