Launched in 2015 and developed by musician Neil Young, Pono was a portable digital media player and music download service for high-resolution audio. It was discontinued in 2017 due to the shift to streaming with services like Spotify and Apple Mus ...
Launched in 2024, the Apple Vision Pro is a mixed-reality headset. Although it has advanced display technology and immersive spatial computing, its high price, bulky design, and health concerns—such as eye strain and cognitive fatigue—have limited ...
The first-gen Apple Pencil Lightning charger shouldn't have gone past the initial design phase – let alone transform into a prototype and end up in the palms of a consumer (quite literally, in this case). From the tip to the end cap, the 1st Gen Pe ...
In 2015, Apple released its infamous Magic Mouse 2, which, believe it or not, had a bottom-facing charging port. Most modern Apple users will point to this product as one of Apple's most poorly designed modern products. Old-timers and legacy Apple f ...
Launched in 1998 and discontinued in 2000, The Apple "Hockey Puck" mouse had an unergonomic and uncomfortable shape, which made it difficult for users to orient correctly while using it. Additionally, the build quality was generally considered poor ...
Released in 1995 and discontinued in 1997, Apple Pippin was directed at the home market as "an integral part of the consumer audiovisual, stereo, and television environment." Apple produced 100,000 units of Pippin console and only 42,000 were sold. ...
In 2005, over a year before the first iPhone, Apple and Motorola collaborated to produce a device informally known as "the iTunes phone." This was Apple's first device in the cellphone market. Conceived as an iPod Shuffle mated to a cellphone, the ...
Launched in 1987, HyperCard was a tool for making tools – Mac users could use Hypercard to build their own mini-programs to balance their taxes, manage sports statistics, make music – all kinds of individualized software that would be useful (or fun ...
Launched in 2010 and discontinued in 2011, the Dell Streak was unable to compete with the Apple iPad. In 2011, the Apple iPad sold 50 million tablets in 2011, while all rivals combined sold 1 million.
With NeXT, Jobs wanted to create computers for universities and researchers. NeXT was a project where Jobs could regain the control he had lost at Apple, and he was confident enough in this idea to invest $12 million of his own money. In 1988, NeXT ...
