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Apple Prototypes: 5 Products We Never Saw
Michael writes "For every Apple product we see on the shelves, there are dozens that never make it to production. Sometimes, these rare gems surface on the web for us to take a look at, and ponder what might have been. Scouring through the interweb, I've compiled this list of 5 Apple products that only the most hardcore of hardcore MacAddicts have ever stumbled across.
Surprisingly, some of these products, over 10 years old, are still being speculated about in one form or another to this day. Will we see new products based on these old prototypes? It's far more likely that anything resembling the devices listed below have been rebuilt from the ground up, but still, it's fun to look back on the products that didn't make it to the mass market."
Whatever happened to the iBrator??
-- thinkyhead software and media
"Apple Prototypes: 5 Products Microsoft Never Got To Copy"
I should AC this, but what the hell. What good is karma if you don't spend some now and again? =)
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
it was a prototype female that was attracted to long hair, lonely, coders who spend their nights writing open source software, planning to overthrow the evil empire, and have enough computing power to siumultaneously recompile their kernel while playing Quake 3. And she was supposed to be eager to watch the entire Star Wars collection on DVD, but only if he got it to play on his linux box.
Didn't work. Even Steve Jobs can only do so much.
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
They forgot to list the following products:
- iZune, the modest mp3 player.
- iPond, the relaxing garden equipment.
- iPple, an actual Californian apple with a fancy name.
- iCar, the fancy, white car with an iPod scroll wheel instead of a regular steering wheel.
- iBus, same as above, just bigger. Intended for hip schools.
- iShmael, the iPod designed for Amish, relies on two horses to power it.
- iLonium 210, the perfect Russian killer (designed during the cold war).
Full Tilt
I think Paladins have vows to stop you getting your hands on their thingies. That and the time it takes to get the plate mail off.
Man, I saw the words 'edit post' in the URL to that story and I got all excited, thinking about how I was gonna go change it to reference Apple products like the Apple Post-It Notes and the iBrator and the iZune or whatever ... then once I found out I couldn't edit the post I got all sad.
Then I started thinking about the iBrator and Ellen Fleiss again and all was well.
I think you're confusing two icons: Heidi Fleiss, Hollywood madam, Ellen Feiss, teenage Mac switcher. The first is a bit skanky these days, the latter is probably legal now.
It wouldn't surprise me, as it was designed for a wizzy lifestyle.
... and then they built the supercollider.
"Hi, I'm a PC."
"And (oooo) I'm (mmmm...ahhh!) a Mac.
Soylent Green is peoplicious!
>every man, woman, infant, convicted felon, and sheep herder on Earth
As a sheep herder, I take exception to the implication I am not a man.
I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil
Yeah, as if any users could ever be foolish enough to deliberately download and install malware.
Oh look, this nice-looking program seems to be free...
This made me laugh:
"..the GMS based service was extremely buggy, and moving from service area to service area caused an almost constant loss of signal.
The device was ahead of its time."
Yeah, ahead of its time indeed! It was clearly anticipating the features of the latest 3G phones.
Wooosh!
Sounds like you need a Mac.