Newton PDA, mouse and Pippin console included in the list of failed Apple gadgets
Quartz journalists listed the most failed Apple products. A list of 12 devices is available on the media website.
The top was headed by the Newton pocket computer (PDA), which was “ahead of its time,” but failed to sell and was canceled by Steve Jobs. Below is a puck-shaped USB mouse: “the design was simply terrible, and the shape could not have been less ergonomic.” In third place was the Pippin console, which was ignored by game manufacturers and gamers.
Below are the Ping service – an analogue of a social network for musicians, the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (TAM) computer, MacBook laptops with an unreliable butterfly keyboard, the Macintosh TV TV-computer, the Apple III desktop computer that failed to sell, and the canceled AirPower wireless charging.
In conclusion, the journalists chose the iPod Hi-Fi media center, the Macintosh Copland operating system and the powerful Power Mac G4 Cube computer. “Some of these ill-fated devices were either poorly executed or too ambitious, but almost all of them influenced the devices Apple fans use today,” the authors concluded.
At the end of December, a video showing a prototype of an unreleased inductive charger for Apple gadgets was posted online. According to the collector who acquired the device, in certain modes the accessory heated and damaged smartphones and headphones.
Source: Lenta
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