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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."
I love it. As perfect a description of a slashdotting as I've ever seen.
Do you want to play a game?
Looking for a Rails developer in Chapel Hill?
did they host this on a newton, a pippin, or an apple ///?
Even at flopping, they're quite innovative.
According to the first one in TFA:
Problem in database connection
You'd think they'd be a little more specific.
What a bad place for this notice on this website. I know where to go if I want a server that can't stand the heat.
-rich
The database would appear to be hosted on a Newton.
...got to him.
Problem in Database Connection
Speak poorly of Apple, and you will suffer. The smily face in my Finder window is merely a distraction.
So glad mirrordot is able to mirror the "Problem in Database Connection" page.
-Ted
-=-=- Quantum physics - the dreams stuff are made of.
I'll need to know this information before I can top one, much less ten of them!
When things get complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.
Just one question. Which game needs the top-row '9' key all the time?
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
I was once an admin for a mac only company. they ran Eudora mail sever on a tangerine imac. they ran it on a tangerine imac beacuse nobody in the office wanted that color on their desk.
:)
I also once worked for a Mac retailer. 2 guys walked off with a tangerine ibook. the one question i had for my co-workers working at the time was how did you not notice them stealing a bright orange laptop. anyway, i doubt they were able to resell it
10 FLOPS? Come on, guys, even my pocket calculator does more than that. :)
quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
Ben and Jerry's.
Like hell. They stopped making "Coffee Coffee Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!" and they named a flavor after Dave Matthews.
I am Sartre of the Borg. Existence is futile.
Great... someone who wasn't alive in 1984 is running two sites about Mac history?
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
Thanks for the article text, but damn, you are distrubing to be including a hidden "Kill Michael" message there! (For those that didn't notice, look up all the random italicized bits.)
Log in and we can talk.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
Weird-ass keyboard (why make a numerical keyboard with just subtraction?!), but cool looking.
...) ENTER.
More buttons would confuse users. You can perform any basic arithmetic operation with that keypad *.
Subtraction? x, -, y, ENTER.
Addition? x, -, -, y, ENTER.
Multiplication? 4, -, -, 4, -, -, 4, (... so on
So much less complicated than our "modern computers" with our * and / and + keys.
* Not including division.
If you plugged the pins in out of line at the next power up they went BANG and dislodged your boss' toupee. Mind you, once bitten...
-- Free software on every PC on every desk
No, no...that's linux fanatics. Apple fanatics bitch about PCs all the time ;-)
(I'm both a linux and mac fanatic and I do use PCs and Windows quite a bit, so I feel entitled to say this!)
IP Therefore I am.
If he called them sites about ancient Mac history, would that make you feel better? Or worse?
paintball
Only if we disregard the fact that the 1984 Macintosh has nothing, apart from the name, to do with the current models.
That's not true! They both have a one button mouse! *ducks*
Yeah. In other news, history professors who weren't alive during Rome's heyday are writing textbooks about ancient Roman civilization.
In further new, my history prof actually WAS alive during Greece's heyday. Or at least he looked it.
If the 'horror stories' are true, having an unmellowed Steve Jobs raise a child during its formative years might not have been such a good thing.
"Daddy, I drew a pony!"
"Pony? That looks like a lizard. This is shit. You're fired."
"Daddy, you can't fire me."
"Then learn to draw."
September 2011: Looking for Cocoa/iOS work in Boston area Cocoa Programmer Quincy, MA
I will never trust that company ever again. I invested several years of my career developing software for those machines
How's it feel to carry around that baggage for 25 years?
http://www.fool.com/news/foolplate/2000/foolplate0 00412.htm
So, at this point, your beard is what, three-three and-a-half feet long now?
Honestly, I don't know if current PowerBooks can do that, but my current IBM T30 can't.
/. told a funny story about sitting on a plane and switching the battery in sleep mode. The guy in the next seat saw that and thought it was cool so he'd tried it on his IBM. An IBM that didn't support such things. And lost all his work.
Yes they can. Someone on
Market share is just not that important.
If you really believe that then you and the Amiga people have a lot to talk about...
Da Blog
Well, it's rather difficult to find anyone who was alive when there were dinosaurs. On the other hand, around here you can't swing a dead cat without hitting 10 people with fond memories of the Apple ][.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
Yep triple platform here... and eh.. windows really does suck a frog out of a lemon on any day of the week. Linux only on alternate wednesdays..
-if at first you don't succeed, stay the heck away from paragliding.
Meaning, it gained rather than lost a few minutes each day?
is an apple flop some kind of dessert?
If you're actually interested, I managed to get both AIX and Linux running on one of these puppies, actually using it for a web server and file server for a while.
It is a wholly random procedure, as far as I can tell. I tried what I believe to be an identical set of steps three or four times before it finally actually worked, when trying to get Linux installed.
And yes, every single time you tried it, you had to take the battery out for an hour or so. In fact, the time I actually got Linux installed, I had left the battery out overnight. (And the machine unplugged.)
Worth it? Well, I replaced it with a G4 Cube that runs 1/10 as hot, 1/1000 as noisy, three or four times as fast, and much, much prettier. Running Mac OS X Server, natch.
-fred
Sign #11 of Slashdot overdose: You see the phrase 'moderate Republican' and you wonder if that would be a +1 or a -1.