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

["Edwin" <thorne25@juno.com>]

ZnU wrote:
> 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.
> > ___________________________________________________
> >
> >
> > 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.

It takes a real Mac Zealot to try to make Apple's bumbling incompetence
come out as a good_thing.

I wonder if all the vendors who wasted money on catalogs, advertising,
order processing, etc., blew off their losses by sneering at MS IE?
Somehow it doesn't seem likely...