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Top 10 Apple Flops

Posted by timothy on from the performa-636 dept.

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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  1. Flop #1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hiring steve jobs.

  2. Re:Cube? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    i bet the MiniMac flops just like the Cube did a few years ago...

  3. "Apples == expensive" not a stereotype by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    There is no Mac on the market that is priced comparably to a similarly equipped PC. Period. End of story.

    I hope this post doesn't perturb the membrane of your Steve Jobs reality distortion field.

  4. iPod Shuffle? by richcoder · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Perhaps this is the next blunder?

  5. ENOUGH WITH THE APPLE ALLREADY by scenestar · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Sjeesh. Apple launches one small box and suddenly were being bombarded with mac articles.

    I hereby demand more linux and less apple.

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  6. Re:So much easier to knock down than to build up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You MUST be a guy (male)! 'Cause you're a pitiful dickhead AND NO ACTUAL man (no REAL man blatantly agrues with women), at that too. I am actually logically, you prig. I don't have "poor" dictionary. I am NO "living proof" of yours, you dolt. "Proof" to (CRAPPY people, like) you would be *beep* to people like me. Ha! I am not a "mom". Apple will get it back together, later this year. Apple is NOT a "big" OR "outdated" "joke", you small-minded dumbass. It IS taken seriously, you fool. I am not a "little loser", you loser. It is NOT "washed up", you immature pig. iTunes's ACTUAL audio is NOT "heavily edited", you screwed-up retard. It is NOT "garbage", you lewd dunce. Apple's market is NOT "limited", you little turkey. *beep* to your definition of "mainstream". The "boat" did NOT "sink", jerk. Screw your "rats are normally-- (blah, blah)" thing. Apple aint in it for the money, you moron. "iMac" is NOT "crap", you shitty ass. It is NOT an "Windows whore", you little dog-*beep*. The people behind Apple are NOT "crappy", you nut-rag. Apple is NOT "flawed", you jackass. It is NOT "crap", you garbage-spewing idiot. It is ACTUALLY talented, you pathetic jerk-wad. It is NOT "mega ripoff", you gay bed-pansy. G5 IS TOO ACTUAL, REAL CPU, you sad clown. It is NOT "dull corporate washed out project". However, you are a self-absorbed, childish, *beep*-up, fat ass-hole, for saying that, though. HA! It is NOT "out fashioned", you gay retard. It is NOT "out dated", you garbage-eating fool. Apple did NOT "came too late" for anything, you man-bitch. *beep* the stupid Xerox Dorks. I don't care (about them)! Nothing got "stolen" from Apple, freak. "personal computers" are NOT "90's", you irrelevant ass. I do NOT need to "grow up" at all, you second-rate high school-dropout. AND nope, Apple does NOT "swallow", you repugnant "Barnie Miller"-reject.

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    Apple is the best! And Apple is better than ANY "x86" pc! And those are facts!

  7. Re:So much easier to knock down than to build up by OverlordQ · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Kick Ass Products? Where? The iPod? You can get better, for cheaper, elsewhere.

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  8. Pricing has been much the same for 20 years by toby · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    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.)

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  9. MAC != Macintosh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Goddamnit people, for the love of Jesus Harvey Christ...

    A "MAC" is a Machine Address Code.
    A "Mac" is a common reference to the Macintosh line of computers built by Apple.

    Fuckstick.