@joe do you work at Apple? Didn’t think so, so that makes you an expert on their products right?

1) This was an entertainment piece meant for kicks and giggles, not to be taken as gospel, and certainly not meant to offend the Apple faithful (which I consider myself one of — I think of my iPad as my third child).

2) None of the opinions expressed in the article were technically “mine” per se. This was not an opinion piece; it was a retrospective. I researched the history of Apple products and picked five of the gadgets most considered to be failures by the public at large. Google any one of them if you don’t believe me.

3) I can let the rest of your comments go, but I’m offended by this one:

Too bad it’s so easy for loud-mouthed bloggers who couldn’t create anything new if their lives depended no it to publish goofy articles like this. The Internet would be a lot more useful if only intelligent articles were published.

As it happens, I’m a published novelist; my fifth novel, Nightmare, just became available in stores nationwide. Look me up at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Books-A-Million, or any other book-selling website, and at your local bookstore.

I appreciate and share your intense love for all things Apple, but taking it so personally as to resort to meaningless insults is uncalled for. Particularly when you know nothing whatsoever about the person you’re smearing across the pavement.

Why is their opinion worth any less than yours?

Because this is our blog and not theirs. ;)

1. Hockey Puck Mouse. Lots of people liked it. Why is their opinion worth any less than yours?

2. Newton Message Pad. Years, if not a decade or more, ahead of its time. Newton was a great product and has a lot of fans, even today. Unfortunately, Doonesbury killed it before it had a chance to mature. Still, it was an incredible product by the standards of its time.

3. QuickTake. Again, years ahead of the competition. Great product and widely admired. At the point that lots of other companies started making digital cameras, Apple decided it wasn’t strategic and dropped it. How does that make it a failure?

4. Pippin. Another product that was miles ahead of its time. Sadly, Apple relied on Bandai to market it – and it was never even brought to market. At the time, the concept of a game console that would run your regular computer OS was unheard of (for that matter, it still is). Had this been marketed properly, it would have sold like hotcakes.

5. Apple TV. Has sold millions of units. Hardly an epic failure.

Now, pick the LEAST successful of these products. What have you ever done that even approaches the least successful product Apple delivered?

Too bad it’s so easy for loud-mouthed bloggers who couldn’t create anything new if their lives depended no it to publish goofy articles like this. The Internet would be a lot more useful if only intelligent articles were published.

and the TV is not a failure…it just has not been taken to it’s full potential

now that the Mac Mini has an HDMI port I expect to see a new different version of the TV

watch out son

Neat article, but what about the Lisa? Wasn’t that a big ole fat stinker as well? And the iPod, those things were just horrible failures. I’m actually surprised Apple survived releasing those things.