forbes.com - 10/30/2008
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Personal Technology When Apple Failed Andy Greenberg , 10.30.08, 6:00 AM ET Boston - Long ago, before the iPhone, before the iPod, before even the second coming of Steve Jobs, Apple was not the infallible juggernaut of innovation it's known as today. The fanboys may not believe that there was a ...
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Back in the Day: When Apple didn't totally rock
MacUser —
Earlier this week, at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston, Allan Yogasingam disassembled two of Apple's biggest hardware flops in the company's history: the lesser-known gaming system, Pippin, and the oft-ridiculed PDA, the Newton.
As Forbes.com reported: In the case of the Pippin, Apple's attempt with the toymaker Bandai to create a hybrid PC game console for the Japanese market in 1995, Yogasingam's dissection revealed a strange mongrel's anatomy: the processor of a gaming machine, mixed with the networking capability, structure ...
Forbes’ 10 Apple Flops
Cult of Mac —
... in the world Apple sits for 2008 at #1, Forbes magazine featured its list of the 10 biggest Apple failures this week, a gallery of which we reproduce for you below. ...
‘Macsimum Recommended Reading’ for Oct. 31
Macsimum News —
... “When Apple Failed: Long ago, before the iPhone, before the iPod, before even the second coming of Steve Jobs, Apple was not the infallible juggernaut of innovation it’s known as today. The fanboys may not believe that there was a time when Apple could fail. But Allan Yogasingam has proof.”—Forbes ...
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The Tao of Mac —
... I would loathe to call it a failure like Forbes did, but it certainly needs to evolve a bit more – despite its polish, ...
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