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Rank the 50 best Apple products

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Re: Rank the 50 best Apple products

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This is only for really old people. I entered Apple's ecosystem 20 years ago and I've never seen half of these products in real life. I'm surprised that The Verge went ahead with this, but knowing the state of things, I'm sure they coded some guy's idea and never thought about the (tiny) demographic interested in this.

HEY.

Re: Rank the 50 best Apple products

#12

Old guy, here. This ranking is fun and the as-of-now results mostly track. 1. Original iPhone 2. M1 Chip 3. Original iPod 4. Original Macintosh 5. Mac OS X Though I’d put them in a different order.

Whatever model Classic Mac that supported the Apple ][e expansion card, Apple DOS expansion card, and Apple Unix install (getting you System 7? 8?, DOS, original Apple, and a commercial Unix) has got to be up there at least for the novelty for me.

Re: Rank the 50 best Apple products

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post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree with "original iPad" being the highest-placed product in that line. iPad 2 should have that spot, no question. A product so successful they sold it for a really long time, plus its guts served in the also-long-lived first gen iPad mini. It was a giant improvement over the original iPad, with a crazy-long support life and outstanding performance characteristics.

I think others are ranking it not that way because of the hardware, but because of the concept and how it dramatically changed the market for tablet computers.

You're right for the same reason that the original iPhone outranks the iPhone 3Gs.

Re: Rank the 50 best Apple products

#14
post #7

This is only for really old people. I entered Apple's ecosystem 20 years ago and I've never seen half of these products in real life. I'm surprised that The Verge went ahead with this, but knowing the state of things, I'm sure they coded some guy's idea and never thought about the (tiny) demographic interested in this.

I mean, choosing the best product of the last 50 years kind of implies a certain age, doesn't it?

Re: Rank the 50 best Apple products

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post #7

This is only for really old people. I entered Apple's ecosystem 20 years ago and I've never seen half of these products in real life. I'm surprised that The Verge went ahead with this, but knowing the state of things, I'm sure they coded some guy's idea and never thought about the (tiny) demographic interested in this.

Watch your mouth, kid!

Re: Rank the 50 best Apple products

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Old guy, here. This ranking is fun and the as-of-now results mostly track. 1. Original iPhone 2. M1 Chip 3. Original iPod 4. Original Macintosh 5. Mac OS X Though I’d put them in a different order.

I have a slightly stupid take on tier lists I put together recently. A perfect chance to try it out.

https://compare.outband.net

It started as a shower thought on how to rank arbitrary items and ended as a janky web app written by a backend luddite who refuses to use frameworks. So here it is, a better tier list... Or not, it sort of sucks in practice.

For fun, Here is my order.

https://compare.outband.net/compare/app/compare.html?pop=app...

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