Remember The Apple Flops?

Including the ROKR which was no more an Apple device than the Rio Cali 128 (which also used iTunes to manage it's music) is really scraping the bottom of the barrel looking for 10.

Apple had plenty of flops (but, as you pointed out, most during the non-Steve Jobs years) like Dylan, OpenDoc, and Copeland.

Why didn't the Apple III make the list? Or the IIGS+ ?

THe ROKR, and the "one button mouse" arguments are tell-tale signs of the Mac ignorant.

There was no such thing as a IIGS+. The Apple IIgs computer itself was sold by Apple for over six years, from September 1986 to December 1992:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIgs

For the last half or so of its life it received practically zero promotion from Apple, yet it still sold in significant enough numbers that Apple kept it available. How many other computers of the same era had a lifespan of over six years, with only minor updates? (They increased its RAM and expanded its ROM, but didn't even increase its processor speed.) It'd be hard to find anyone who'd say that qualifications like that would classify something as a "flop."

Apple spelled "Copeland" as "Copland." No E. Stop the disinformation! :)

This is a very poorly researched list. The number of Apple failures is legion, and CyberDog and Newton aren't even in the top ten. (CyberDog was a superior internet suite with tons of potential, and even fairly successful at the time, but Apple let it die rather than port it away from OpenDoc, which should have been on this list.)

These should be on the list:
QuickDraw GX
AOCE/PowerTalk
Apple III
OpenDoc
The 'Road Apple' Macs listed at LowEndMacs.com.

The Mac TV should not be on there. It was given no marketing support by Apple, produced in limited numbers, and given no further development for unknown reasons.

ROKR was Motorola's phone with a small piece of Apple software -- I'd hardly call that an Apple flop. More like a partnership formed to buy Apple time to get the iPhone to market. Every company has flops. The trick is making enough of the great products the market desires that make the flops seem like innocent explorations.

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