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APPLE has become a household name in the past 10 years, bringing us the Ipod, the Iphone, Macbooks, Imacs and countless other technological feats combining practicality and beauty.
They have not however always been the gadget fiend’s wet dream. The mid 90s were not a good time for apple. Although they did have some success, it pails in comparison to that found after 2000.
The following are some of the failed gadgets that Apple have tried to force down our throats in the past. There is no chance of walking into a room and finding that 90 percent of the occupants have these products glued to their palms.
The Apple Walt
Apples first real venture into mobile communications saw the apple W.A.L.T (Wizzy Active Lifestyle Telephone). It was designed in conjunction with Bellsouth communications, and was designed to be a portable communications device. It could even send and receive faxes!
Discontinued in: 1993
The Apple Penlite
This would have almost been the precursor to the Ipad. Described as a ‘flatscreen tablet’. It had a stylus to type messages and access features. It hit the heady heights of being able to run floppy disks. The project was cancelled in 1994 after Apple introduced the Newton which was seen as another pen driven tablet device.
Discontinued: 1994
Apple interactive television
Originally made in conjunction with BT, the interactive TV box was designed to give viewers the chance to have interactive television, something that in the mid 90s had never been heard of. After having a trial of 2,500 homes in the UK, as well as trials in Belgium and in five states in America the idea was shelved after it became obvious that it was not commercially viable.
Discontinued:1995
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