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Fifty years of sexing up tech: Apple’s epic hits – and misses
Publisher description: Remember the iPod? How about the Pippin? In the half-century since it launched its first PC, Apple has given us some amazing innovations. We round up its biggest triumphs and flops
The Guardian | Mar 10, 2026 | Chris Stokel-Walker
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Here are five of its most influential products from the past half-century – alongside some unusually big misses. The hitsApple II (1977) Photograph: Science & Society Picture Library/Getty ImagesThe Apple II put the small, scrappy upstart company on the map. Photograph: Alpha Historica/AlamyThe next big paradigm shift that Apple was involved in was the release of the Macintosh personal computer. Apple stopped making it within two years of release. Macintosh Portable (1989)A Macintosh Portable at MacPaw’s Ukrainian Apple Museum in Kiev, Ukraine, in 2017.
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