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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, July 21 2013 @ 09:38 AM EDT |
"I'll also point out that Lisa and the Newton are probably
the two best known of Apple's failed products. Fanatic
followers didn't save those products."
Have you forgotten the Apple III?
At $10,000 for the Lisa most could salivate but not afford.
I'm not sure what it was about the Lisa that required such
an astronomical price-point.
The Newton's failure was its effort to be standalone. Apple
hasn't repeated that mistake. The Newton wasn't part of a
larger ecosystem.
I actually LIKED the Newton; It was just the inability to
easily use it as a date-entry device (or presentation
device) that I didn't like. ("Plucker" for a Newton would
have been AWESOME.)
I have hung onto some of the Newton ads because they were
GREAT. ("Restaurant": "wanted in 10 states... and the
District of Columbia", "Meeting": "The most boring meeting
in the history of western civilization...") SNL's Newton
post-it parodies were also seriously cool.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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