Top 13 of Little-Known Apple Products

Apple gadgets - stylish, subtle and elegant - are usually associated with the frontier of the development of electronic devices. But along with super successful personal computers, smartphones, players, tablets, the company often launched projects that did not survive their era and that now look like relicts of the beginning of the computer era. Or look just funny.

The following are 13 little-known Apple gadgets.

1. Cassettes with games, 1978 year

Before floppy disks appeared, software for Apple computers was often recorded on tapes. And, by the way, the development ecosystem was already quite active at that time, a lot of games like Slot Machine, Star Wars, Lemonade Stand came out.

2. Apple's printer, 1979-1988 years

At the dawn of the computer era, most companies in this market necessarily acquired their own printer model. Apple was no exception and introduced Silentype in 1979. It cost about 599 dollars in the US, which is about 2000 dollars for current money. The company abandoned the production of printers in the 1985 year, finally launching the LaserWriter for 6995 dollars.

3. MacWrite, 1984-1994 years

In the gadget selection crept in and the program. MacWrite was first introduced on the original Mac 1984 of the year and became a great-grandmother for MacWrite Pro, AppleWorks, and finally - Pages.

4. Fashionable collection of clothes from Apple 1986 year

Yes, yes, Apple once had such a product. The Apple Collection - this was a catalog, an attempt by the company to sell branded clothing. Fashionable things that were offered to lovers of the brand, of course, were very different from the company's modest black turtleneck, in which Jobs usually presented new products.

5. Apple Scanner 1988-1997 years

Continuing the periphery line for Macs, Apple launched the 1988 dpi scanner line in A300, A4, which was replaced in 1991 in the year by OneScanner. None of the scanners actually gained much popularity, so this line was closed in the 1997 year.

6. Apple Newton, 1993-1998 years

Not such a distant ancestor of the iPhone and iPad. The tablet was installed familiar to users of "poppies" applications like Notes, Names and Dates. All versions were equipped with a stylus and software that could recognize handwritten text. But the gadget was financially unsuccessful.

7. Apple PowerCD, 1993-1996 years

Apple at one time received quite a few tricks from colleagues in the market when it decided that there was no place for a CD-drive in a laptop. But there were times when the company thought otherwise. The Apple PowerCD Portable CD Player was developed by Phillips and branded for Apple. He was able to read optical discs, being connected to the "Maca".

8. Camera QuickTake, 1994-1997 years

It's not easy to believe in it, but once Apple tried its hand at the photo equipment market. QuickTake was developed by Kodak and Fijifilm specifically for Apple. The camera sold for $ 749, with a resolution of three megapixels and one MB memory.

9. Game console Apple Pippin, 1995-1997 years

Apple once tried to enter the gaming console market. Apple Pippin was a multimedia platform on the Macintosh OS, and eventually became a game console. But unsuccessful: only 40 thousand copies were sold, and the project was closed.

10. iMac flowered, 2002 year

This is a real-life version of the iMac. After Apple released monoblocks of all colors of the rainbow, the company decided to show the limited series Flower Power. She did not become popular.

11. Apple eMac, 2003-2006 years

Initially, it was the iMac version for educational purposes, but in the end the computer just became a cheaper “aimag”. The first version had 128 MB of memory, a hard disk on 40 GB and worked on Mac OS X Puma.

12. IPod speakers HiFi, 2006-2007 years

The device was sold for 349 dollars, but did not win much success.

13. Golden headphones, 2013 year

Johnny Ive and Mark Newson have developed a limited edition gold earphone earPods. They left the auction for 461 a thousand dollars, and gave the money to charity.

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