Apple Released These Oddly Unique Products in the 1990s

[NetMage]

That's way back when Apple was making some different products, success or not, they tried. Other than the Apple Vision Pro, what's new in the last ten years? Upgrades yes, innovative products? Hardly.

The Apple Watch says "Hi!"

Apple has never been a company that produces new products in new categories every few years. They take their time, they try to wait until they think they have an advantage or improvement over existing products that already exist in the category. I don't know where people get the idea Apple generates new products all the time when they never have.

 

[WebHead]

I loved the designs of Apple in the late 1990s and early 2000s
While I had used Macs previously, the Bondi Blue iMac was what started me down the journey using this full time.
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Y'know what's funny about Apple's translucent phase? The company's whole M.O. was to shield the consumer from the complex tech going on beneath the surface, yet here they were letting it all hang out.

 

[NetMage]

The Newton was kind of like a precursor of the modern smart phone? What crack are you smoking. It was a frickin' tablet. It had no telephony. it was a PDA with a touch screen via stylus. AKA a tablet.

I see your arrogance is only exceeded by your ignorance. The new product that was being developed at Apple was an ARM (developed for Newton) tablet that ran a reduced scale version of macOS (then called Mac OS X) which was essentially a battery powered Unix touch tablet, a practical version of Ive's first design for Apple, before he worked for them. But Jobs thought they should do a phone first and persuaded Ive, so the Newton successor (PDA -> tablet) became the iPhone and then back to tablet (PDA -> iPhone -> iPad). And the iPhone was the first modern smart phone.

 

[NetMage]

We need someone to step in and start axing the quirky and unnecessary products currently offered by Apple, so they can get back to focusing on a few great products rather than trying to cover the whole market with quantity instead of quality.

Name what you think is a quirky and unnecessary Apple current product.

 

[Anonymous123]

Name what you think is a quirky and unnecessary Apple current product.

Vision Pro.

 

[CyberDavis]

Vision Pro.

Not sure it’s quirky or unnecessary.

There are other similar headsets, so is quirky fair?
Yes it’s expensive, but having had a demo I see how I would use it.
I think it’s the price they’ve had to pitch it at that is the problem.
Will it last, not sure, depends how it can evolve to be available to a wider audience.