Disagree. Maybe nail it for a majority of users, but for "accessibility" users (disclamor ha ha - I use MFI Bluetooth Hearing Aids) I am deeply concerned accessibility will be degraded.
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Apple's Biggest Hardware Flops of All Time
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By the Tech Youtuber's opinions, the MacBook Air M2 should be right in there because the M2 CPU & GPU take up 1 more watt of energy and the 256gb SSD speeds are a little slower. 
The charging port on the bottom has never bothered me. I enjoy the mouse every day. After all, 90% of the mouse's life (when I use this mouse) I prefer the touch surface without notch, so this compromise not only looks aesthetically but also functionally well balanced. How would you have done it better? I'd be really interested to know. Maybe draw it and post it in here.
Since there are a lot of people here at MacRumors who like to park charging mats for all products on the table, they might be happy to have a soft mattress gimmick for their mouse to rest on while lying on its back.
On the other hand, Apple has used a hard plastic for the sensitive surface that normally does not scratch.
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There’s a difference between commercial flops, marketing and pricing flops, and design failures, although there is clearly a Venn connecting them all.
I don’t know about anyone else but at the time it came out I’d have loved a Twentieth Anniversary Mac. Make it larger screened and I’d still quite like the look of it
I was amazed seeing all these products in person back in the day, I thought it was amazing to be alive during this boom, 80-90’s. I couldn’t afford anything Apple until the Pizza-box era (Quadra/LC-series).
…still not a fan of ANY Apple mouse
…my all-time favorite keyboard ever is the Apple Extended Keyboard (M0115)
Lastly, I love the original, and 3rd gen Shuffles! Totally, NOT flops imo 🥰🤪
I am thankful Apple was quirky enough to design outside the bo.
…still not a fan of ANY Apple mouse
…my all-time favorite keyboard ever is the Apple Extended Keyboard (M0115)
Lastly, I love the original, and 3rd gen Shuffles! Totally, NOT flops imo 🥰🤪
I am thankful Apple was quirky enough to design outside the bo.
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Iris? Can't recall. went to several workshops at SGI that were aimed at GIS/ESRI stuff.
I use a trusty AA battery powered one. No wires, no problems, very light kit with an actual tiny on/off slider switch. And yes it's on the bottom.
TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️
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It’s too bad the consumers didn’t even get to see the AirPower. I wish Apple had released it in the wild 😂
The $30,000 or so number was based on inflation. At the time it was $10k.
Our Finance Director got an Apple /// to run an accounting package from Great Plains Software, this must have been somewhere around 1981-82. I had an Apple ][ since 1978 and was doing all kinds of cool stuff with it at the time, so I think that influenced his decision. I thought the Apple /// was really cool, especially for the 80 character text (my Apple ][ could only do 40, although there were display cards that could be added). And the Apple /// also came with some nice utility software for doing basic stuff like copying files, etc. I recall it had a tabbed user interface which was all done with ASCII art and you used the cursor arrow keys to navigate. I believe this found its way to the Apple //e later.
I remember going to the Finance Director shortly after getting that machine, asking if he could expidite some sort of payment and he said "we can do anything.... we have an Apple Computer!" 😄
He liked that computer so much, when he left to start his own business a few years later he bought another Apple /// and the same Great Plains Software. I stuck with my Apple ][ at home until 1985 when I got a "Fat Mac" 512k.
I remember going to the Finance Director shortly after getting that machine, asking if he could expidite some sort of payment and he said "we can do anything.... we have an Apple Computer!" 😄
He liked that computer so much, when he left to start his own business a few years later he bought another Apple /// and the same Great Plains Software. I stuck with my Apple ][ at home until 1985 when I got a "Fat Mac" 512k.
My first Apple gear was an Apple IIc and ImageWriter I and II. Still have my 2008 MBP and 2009 MacPro. I never really owned any bad Apple hardware, but I’ve owned a slew of crappy Apple Software; especially over the last 10-years.
I loved my first-generation Newton. I wish I still had it.
"Maybe what people really want is the holodeck experience from Star Trek instead of some cumbersome hardware on their head?"
You shouldn't race to embrace rumors based on an overused MR rendering. Or conjecture on a $3K price.
But I get it. People love to cling to unsubstantiated rumors so they can feel good proclaiming to the world how awful it will be, and how Apple is so doomed.
That was actually an outstanding strategic move by Apple, even though the device sucked.
Working with Motorola, one of the three leaders in cellular telecom (MEN - Motorola, Ericsson, Nokia), Apple gained a ton of knowledge about cellular telephony in general, and handsets specifically. Knowledge that would have taken many years to acquire on their own (assuming Apple had the right kind of systems engineers on staff).
Engaging with Motorola on ROKR was a shrewd move by Jobs.
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The Shuffles were awesome, quirky, fun, and unintrusive. Still wish they made something like it or the Nano. Sometimes you just want to listen to music.
I nominate the black touch pad remote for the previous Apple TV
Total failure in every department, certainly not missed
Total failure in every department, certainly not missed