Re: Apple's Pippin console makes list "25 Worst Tech Products of All Time"

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In article <1148874814.648274.265460@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 "AirRaid" <AirRaid1500@gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.joystiq.com/2006/05/28/pc-world-says-apples-pippin-is-the-worst/
> 
> _______________________________________________
> PC World says Apple's Pippin is the "worst"
> 
> Posted May 28th 2006 11:00PM by Christopher Grant
> Filed under: Mac, Retro
> 
> PC World magazine listed Apple's ill-fated game console, the Pippin,
> 22nd on their list of the "25 Worst Tech Products of All Time,"
> writing:
> 
> "Apple had an Internet-capable game console that connected to your TV.
> But it ran on a weak PowerPC processor and came with a puny 14.4-kbps
> modem, so it was stupendously slow offline and online. Then, too, it
> was based on the Mac OS, so almost no games were available for it. And
> it cost nearly $600--nearly twice as much as other, far more powerful
> game consoles."
> 
> Of course, we recognize the Pippin not only for its contribution to the
> annals of also-ran consoles, but also as fodder for years of subsequent
> rumors of another Apple game console. Of course, it also lets Mac
> zealots everywhere point and stomp, claiming gaming consoles as yet
> another area where Apple beat their arch-nemesis Microsoft to the
> proverbial punch. Might want to let this one die fellas, it's just
> better that way.
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> 
> 
> guess Apple and Intel better NOT try to come up with an answer to
> Xbox360 and PS3, then.

At least Apple had the decency to cancel Pippin. I notice IE 6, which is 
on the list as well, is still the current version of IE all these years 
later. Nice work, Microsoft.

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