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Quartz journalists have listed Apple’s most failed products. The list of 12 devices is available on the media website.
The top was headed by the Newton pocket computer (PDA), which was “ahead of its time” but failed in sales and was canceled by Steve Jobs. A USB mouse shaped like a puck was ranked below: “the design was just awful, and the shape couldn’t have been less ergonomic”. In third place was the Pippin console, which was ignored by game makers and gamers.
Below were Ping, a social networking service for musicians, the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (TAM), MacBook laptops with an unreliable butterfly keyboard, the Macintosh TV, the failed Apple III desktop computer, and the canceled AirPower wireless charger.
