Some Cool Apple Prototypes That Never Made It to Production

[miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG 0]

There's hardly anything I can add to this article - you've to see for yourself. The prototypes are quite interesting and some of them stemmed out of really cool ideas.

For every Apple product we see on the shelves, there are dozens that never make it to production. Sometimes, these rare gems surface on the web for us to take a look at, and ponder what might have been. Scouring through the interweb, Iâve compiled this list of 5 Apple products that only the most hardcore of hardcore MacAddicts have ever stumbled across.
Surprisingly, some of these products, over 10 years old, are still being speculated about in one form or another to this day. Will we see new products based on these old prototypes? Itâs far more likely that anything resembling the devices listed below have been rebuilt from the ground up, but still, itâs fun to look back on the products that didnât make it to the mass marketâŚ

Read the full article and see the prototype pictures: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

[seec77 0]

Yes, I just saw this on Slashdot a few minutes ago.Well, I think we can all see why all these products never made it to the golden stage. I mean, Apple is known for its high-usability and innovative products, while these are just clumsy and not well thought out. Besides, most of them aren't even that useful.Still nice to look at though!

[KDEWolf 0]

Yes, I just saw this on Slashdot a few minutes ago.Well, I think we can all see why all these products never made it to the golden stage. I mean, Apple is known for its high-usability and innovative products, while these are just clumsy and not well thought out. Besides, most of them aren't even that useful.
Still nice to look at though!

I couldn't add anything without being redundant. Very well said.

[unimatrix 0]

Apple sometimes have been a few years way ahead of their time. Remember DVD-RAM? Well it's back in a lot of DVD-recorder machines so that you can use them like a DVR machine. The Newton had a rabid fan base...but they were a couple years ahead of their time. I remember someone having Airport in their dorm room back in 2000 when no body knew what wireless internet was. Now it's everywhere. Apple has a habbit of being on the bleeding edge and sometimes geting bloodied over it. Just like I think they'll go to Blu-Ray and HD-DVD is going to be the Next Gen format of choice...at least until everyone has some kind of set top box to download content.