We are quite used to the fact that everything that the apple stamp becomes a resounding success. However, it is proven that this is not the case. In fact, we could say that Apple's are an accumulation of success after success by the fact that we remember the products that actually became such, forgetting all those that were a failed experiment in the market. In this specific case, we are going to take a look at some of those who showed that the apple can also fail. And also when it does, it does it in a noisy way.
Among those that you are going to see below, you probably do not recognize products Apple that you have seen in stores. It must be remembered that the company did not always enjoy the fame it currently has, and that it did not always live in a globalized market. Even so, they are nonetheless less failures, and at times they proved to be well below the market alternatives, and what their specific audience expected of them. So, today we have to see the bitter side that Cupertino has gone through, even though it is more than overcome.
Apple products that failed miserably
Macintosh Portable
The design may sound crazy to us now, but back then, when the first of Apple's laptops was introduced in 1989, it stood out. But the failure was not due to that, but to the fact that it did not fulfill all the functionalities that were expected of it since it had a really high price, 7000 dollars of those at the time to get one of them. A nonsense!
apple hockey puck
Although in itself the design of this mouse matched perfectly with that of the computers that Apple presented at this time, the truth is that that round shape did not quite convince anyone. Not because Apple managed to turn around the concept that many of us have of a mouse, but because it was not comfortable at all. In the end, the company had to rethink it and opt for more classic alternatives giving it its personal touch.
Pippin
Although few know of its existence in the past, the truth is that in Cupertino they even tried with a console. It was time to test the market and try to face the competition. Like all those that we have listed so far, and precisely because of this it is in this ranking, the Apple Pippin gaming machine was not successful and only managed to sell about 44.000 units.
MacintoshTV
We could say that it is the Apple TV of the nineties. In reality, the idea that they have developed today, and which luckily is more successful, could have started from this other project that failed. Only 10.000 units were sold and although it manages to get our attention now, at that time Apple would not have invented it because of the losses it caused them.
Apple QuickTake
And if you thought that the cameras of the current iPhone It has no history, it is because you had missed this other Apple invention, because Cupertino also tried it in the world of cameras. In fact, the one you see in the image below is precisely the one that they tried to turn into the camera with their logo, but they did not succeed. It was one of the first digital cameras, it came out in 1994 and in 1997 they stopped making it.
Iphone 5c…
with the millions that he has sold ?? I would rather say Apple's strategy, they will know why but they have sold more than these 5 products together, and more than even some android phones, there is nothing of failure haha
Here in the USA the iphone 5c is given away by XD haha
They all failed for the price of insurance
Innovating is what you have, sometimes you put out products that are ahead of their time, like the Newton, or sometimes the product does not respond to the expected requirements. But that will always be better, and bring out products that revolutionize the market, devices such as the iPod, iPhone or iPad, which mark a before and after in the world of technology. Then other houses will come to copy ...