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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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.

10 flops?

[slavemowgli]

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

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: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."