• Whiskey Pickle@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        then again, i had a tiny, protable minidisc player in 1998, and that never took off, despite being around for years and far superior to CDs-- they even played mp3s in a similar way to iPods. cheaper. years earlier. it ran off a single AA battery that lasted weeks. weeks. but they were a niche product…

        then again, when was thee last time an apple product failed to launch?

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            1 year ago

            hesitant upvote just because the G4 Cube didn’t so much flop as much as it just didn’t “blow up” and, also, it wasn’t a “new product”. it wasn’t very popular and didn’t last long, though, so you’re right about that. Oddly, they’re one of the ost sought-after collecter’s items, like the Newton, another famous Apple flop-- although I loved that, too, as I loved the G4 Cube.