Top 10 Apple Flops

Kelly McNeill writes "Though Apple computer is known for some of the computing and technology industry's most notable innovations, its not as if the company hasn't also taken its lumps. Thomas Hormby submitted the following editorial contribution to osOpinion/osViews, which supplies us with his top ten list of Apple's (and some of associated partners) most significant flops throughout the company's history."

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iPod Shuffle?

[richcoder]

Perhaps this is the next blunder?

Pricing has been much the same for 20 years

[toby]

Some outrageous prices during the '90s - This was where the Mac got its "overpriced" reputation. I recall that the list price for a Quadra 950 was close to $10,000

I'm not sure that's changed. Since 1985 or so, an entry level system has always been about A$3500 and a decent production system around $A5-7,000. Those benchmarks have lasted all 20 years, from 68000 through G5: if you want a dual G5 and big monitor, it's still about US$10,000.

(Don't tell anyone, but the Mac Mini isn't really an "entry" level system - it's meant to entice PC switchers who don't know any better; you could call it the basement entry, I suppose. It's not much more than the Cube specs at today's prices.)