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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[bobetov]

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[Tackhead]

> I love it. As perfect a description of a slashdotting as I've ever seen.
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>Do you want to play a game?

Ahem. That's "Shall we play a game?" to you, sir.

Turn in your geek card. As mistakes go, that's a WOPR. (Slashdot is a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.)

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[servognome]

Slashdot is a strange game. The only winning move is not to play
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Apple First Strike - WINNER NONE
Microsoft First Strike - WINNER NONE
Apple vs. IBM Hardware Scenario - WINNER NONE
OSX vs Windows Software Scenario - WINNER NONE
APPLE-AMD Alliance Scenario - WINNER NONE
European Amiga Uprising - WINNER NONE
Transmeta offensive - WINNER NONE
MS-AMD Pact - WINNER NONE
Opensource theater wide uprising - WINNER NONE
Grammar Nazi hostility escalation - WINNER NONE
IBM-SCO counterstrike - WINNER NONE
Sun product announcement surprise - WINNER NONE
Amazon One-Click Conflict - WINNER NONE
DRM limited war - WINNER NONE
Internet Explorer quick strike - WINNER NONE
P2P crackdown - WINNER NONE
Worm assault on Firefox - WINNER NONE
Swedish viral attack on Windows - WINNER NONE
China-India Outsource Pact - WINNER NONE
Torvalds-Gates peace accords - WINNER NONE
ATI Graphics card Domination - WINNER NONE
BSD survival - WINNER NONE
All out format war - WINNER NONE
Programming Language Preference Battle - WINNER NONE
Browser standards confrontation - WINNER NONE
OpenOffice GPL dissention - WINNER NONE
Missing Poll Option Discord - WINNER NONE
Off-topic political rivalry - WINNER NONE

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[DarthWiggle]

Congratulations, you beat the Internet. Three - three?! - WarGames references in a two-line comment... that's fantastic.

site already /.ed

[all your mwbassguy a]

did they host this on a newton, a pippin, or an apple ///?

First on the list...

[Anonymous Coward]

According to the first one in TFA:

Problem in database connection

You'd think they'd be a little more specific.

"This Website is powered by PostNuke"

[richcoder]

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

Question...

[physicsphairy]

Just how many floating point operations is an Apple flop?

I'll need to know this information before I can top one, much less ten of them!

Re:Always liked the Tangerine iMac

[linuxbert]

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?

[slavemowgli]

10 FLOPS? Come on, guys, even my pocket calculator does more than that. :)

Re:So much easier to knock down than to build up

[geoffspear]

Great... someone who wasn't alive in 1984 is running two sites about Mac history?

Re:Article text, links & images intact

[Anonymous Coward]

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.)

Re:Here is a picture of the Apple ///.

[realdpk]

Weird-ass keyboard (why make a numerical keyboard with just subtraction?!), but cool looking.

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 ...) ENTER.

So much less complicated than our "modern computers" with our * and / and + keys.

* Not including division.

Re:So much easier to knock down than to build up

[raehl]

If he called them sites about ancient Mac history, would that make you feel better? Or worse?

Re:Apple ///, anyone?

[toddestan]

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*

Re:So much easier to knock down than to build up

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Also, it might have been for the best

[SteeldrivingJon]

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."