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QUICKSTART^

THE BEGINNING OF THE MAGAZINE, WHERE ARTICLES ARE SMALL

THOMAS MCDONALD

THE LIST

Apple’s 8 Greatest Failures

THE LIST

Apple’s 8 Greatest Failures

THE LIST

7

APPLE

MICE

4

PIPP!N

Few remember that

Apple tried to get into the

gaming-console market, but

Nintendo and PlayStation

were already there.

3

APPLE

TV v

2

LISA

Apple’s own

Shakespearean drama saw

the LISA murdered at the

hands of Macintosh and

Steve Jobs.

6

THE NEWTON

Poor handwriting

recognition killed

this early tablet-

size PDA.^5

APPLE III

Until the failure of LISA,

the Apple III was Apple’s

biggest bomb, selling

only 65,000.

8

POWER MAC

G4 CUBE

One of Apple’s earlier small

form factor attempts, the

overpriced and underpowered Cube

suffered from “cracks” in the acrylic

case and

hit the

dustbin

after one

year of

sales.

Photo by By Konstantin Lanzet (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)

ARCHITECTURE CHOICES

Apple sure can pick ’em: Motorola 68000....

No, wait! PowerPC.... No, wait! x86....

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