Top 10 Apple Flops

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Posted by timothy on Monday January 31, 2005 @02:55PM 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."

4 of 993 comments (clear)

Limits of Innovation by meehawl · 2005-01-31 15:08 · Score: 0, Troll

Show me a single computer company (hell, any company) that's been around for 25 years or so and hasn't made any mistakes.
If Apple is really the brains of the industry--if its products are so much better than Microsoft's or Dell's or IBM's or Hewlett-Packard's--then why is the company so damned small? ... The father of the PC--and, remember, the industry's number-one vendor in 1980--has since sunk to a lowly ninth, behind competitors Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM, just for starters. Sadly, Apple is also behind such no-namers as Acer (seventh) and Legend (eighth). So much for innovation and creativity.

--

Da Blog
Re:Question... by fimbulvetr · 2005-01-31 15:18 · Score: 0, Troll

Apple doesn't measure performance. They measure beauty and lack of seams. Performance and speed was an afterthought.
i haven't.... by stames · 2005-01-31 15:24 · Score: 0, Troll

...R'd TFA yet, but when I do, if I hear one peep about the one-goddamned-button mouse, I'm going homicidal...
Current flop - Developers by 1000101 · 2005-01-31 16:07 · Score: 0, Troll

One of Apple's "flops" that continues to this day is it's Developer support. There's more than one reason why there isn't as much software available for Macs, and poor developers relations is one of them. Sure they have the Developer Connection, but their documentation sucks big time and Xcode isn't even in the same league as Visual Studio .NET. Apple could actually learn a thing or two from the MSDN.