“Apple has released some of the best-selling products of all time, and has revolutionized whole industries on its own,” Chris Ciaccia reports for The Street. “Music, phones, computers and wearable technology have all been transformed as Apple has continued to grow in size and influence.”
“Apple is getting set to announce a slew of new products later this month, including a new iPhone, iPad and some Apple Watch accessories. The tech giant may have another hit on its hands with the lower-priced iPhone SE, especially as Apple pushes further into India, a market the company has said is extremely important to them,” Ciaccia reports. “Here’s TheStreet’s look at 7 of the best Apple products ever made, based on our assessment of impact to society, sales figures, media buzz or just plain coolness.”
The 7 best Apple products ever:
1. The Apple II
2. The Macintosh
3. iTunes
4. The iPod
5. The iPhone
6. The iPhone 5s
7. Apple Watch
Read more about each of the seven products in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Take out iPhone 5s and replace it with iPad, at the very least.
What would be your Top 7 Apple Products Ever?
iPad for sure. WATCH too.
Yeah right, on what f*cking planet?
I am sorry to hear that you are not able to own one. If you ever do manage to get one, you will be able to experience the joy that I get when I wear mine. It is a truly wondrous product.
There is a huge difference between best and wondrous. The Apple Watch will never be on the best list. It’s an accessory, not a game changer.
Which one do you own?
I tried the Sport. Didn’t like it. Clumsy interface, too hard for old eyes to read. Sorry, it doesn’t rank up with the best Apple has done.
You used it for 2 weeks or tried it at the store? Playing with it for a few minutes is a waste of time. After a few weeks the interface is as intuitive as the iPhone. My grandfather never got into email either though, so it may be a bridge too far for older generations.
The 7 most important products to Apple:
1. The iPhone 6s
2. The iPad Pro
3. Apple TV
4. Apple Music
5. Apple Watch
6. Apple Car
7. —
The 7 most neglected products by Apple:
1. The Mac & OS (Apple’s new hobby)!
2. iTunes
3. Photo Application (iPhoto / Photos / Aperture)
4. Spotlight (can’t search network servers)
5. Final Cut Pro
6. Enterprise Business
7. Thunderbolt
Tim, you have some very serious problems within Apple. You guys are getting too sloppy with or walk away from products that carry the iPhone, iPad Pro, Apple TV…!
Wake up!
The 5s is a weird one on the list, not that there was anything wrong with it, but the rest of the list doesn’t specify a specific generation/version. It’s even more odd that “iPhone” is on the list and that the Macintosh isn’t broken down to include MacBooks. I would add the iPad to the list, and perhaps increase it to 8 to add the Apple TV.
Also, HyperCard.
iMac anyone? Not new in that it’s just another computer but certainly a new vision of what a beige box could aspire to be.
1. Mac 128K
2. 400K external disk drive
3. AppleTalk network
4. LaserPrinter
5. $1,000 1mb RAM upgrade for Mac II
6. Newton 1 (sweet!)
7. iPad
Remember, Apple created the MessagePad which ran the Newton operating system. Calling the MessagePad the “Newton,” is like calling the iPad “iOS.”
17″ MBP, But who cares about the pro users!
What does best mean?
To me, it’s what offered the best value — long reliable service at a competitive price.
1. OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
2. 17″ MacBook Pro
3. Mac Pro prior to 2013
4. iPhone 6
5. iPod Classic
6. iTunes through version 10
7. Aperture
You will note that the iPhone 6 is the only product that came out of the Cook era. But like most everything else on the list, it was Jobs that kicked it off and made sure it was polished before released to customers.
Snow Leopard was the shit. The absolute Apex of Mac OS X.
Solid, Stable and Remarkably Bug Free. Rosetta.
It has been downhill ever since.
Indeed!
iPod mini? The nano? These were basically perfect products and hugely successful!
5S rocks because it was the last phone Apple made that was comfortable to hold and designed for the human hand.
See you March 21st!
Maps 3D is cool. Can’t wait for VR version for my iPad Pro. LOL
Why is #6 (iPhone 5s) the only product that has a specific model number. It’s also redundant.
If we are including specific models instead of the generic categories, you need to include the iMac, Powerbook and Macbook Pro.
I second the votes for:
– the LaserWriter: launched desktop publishing
And
– HyperCard: it’s forgotten to history but was a tremendous product and hugely influenced everything that came after, eg HTML, JavaScript, Flash, VisualBasic, every IDE, almost every multimedia tool and how multimedia is composed.
1) iPad Pro
2) 1st Intel MacBook Pro
3) 27″ iMac Retina
4) Apple Watch
5) 1st iPod
6) Latest 13″ MacBook Pro Retina
7) iPhone 6s Plus
In order of importance
1) Apple I (without it NONEof this would exist)
2) Apple ][+ (the plus with tape drive [and later floppy drive] and monitor was a major step up in functionality and lots of businesses and home users found more and more and more uses for that additional functionality)
3) Macintosh (really THE computer that ushered in GUI interfaces to the general public)
4) iPhone (really the FIRST truly “smart” phone)
5) LaserWriter (without it desktop publishing and WYSIWYG would not have caught on for 3-5, or more, years later delaying the whole value of a modern GUI)
6) iTunes (changed the very nature of the music industry)
7) 30″ Cinema Display (showed the whole world the value of lots of screen real estate — before then much smaller screens and much lower resolution were considered by most [even Mac users] to be more than good enough)
1- “Cheese Grater” Mac Pro- the beast before which all others bow. If you own one or have owned one, you know what I mean. Dumbest fucking thing Apple ever did was to not update this design.
2- Original iMac (G3)- This computer turned the corner for Apple as it arose from the dead.
3- Original PowerBook.
4- QuickTime
5- iTunes- not the current version.
6- Original iPod
7- iPhone
1. Apple II
2. Appleworks
3. Mac SE/30
4. MacDraw / MacPaint
5. iPod
6. iPhone
7. iPad
PowerBook G4 and OS X
Okay, lots of good mentions. This is sort of an alternative list.
1. The tutorial diskette that came with the first Macs, with the paper airplane and office scenes that showed you how to select, drag, copy, all the basics. I wish I had that to give to newbies now.
2. Human Interface Standards, the menu bar. If you knew one Mac program you knew 70% of every other Mac program. There were no dead ends. Cook era is rapidly eroding this so new Apple programs are rife with contextually available commands, bewildering mires of windows like 1990’s PC programs.
2. Mac IIci – longest selling, powerful, easiest to upgrade, core of the desktop publishing revolution. (btw Laserwriters were the best printers ever. My 16/600 only died last year.)
3. Mac G3,G4 Mini Tower. Best, most accessible design.
4. Hypercard for sure.
5. 12″ Powerbook titanium. Best form factor, way more visibility than the current MacBook air 11″.
6. USB introduction to personal computing.
7. Absolutely OS X 10.6.8!
While it wouldn’t rate in the top seven, one of the greatest products Apple ever produced was the original version range of iMovie. It was revolutionary. Kids were using it, as were teachers and all sorts of consumers. It was easy, intuitive, powerful and extensible. Even Francis Ford Coppola made a video in which he enthusiastically endorsed the product, saying it put quality video production into the hands of the masses.
I was working as an Apple rep at a Best Buy and was demoing iMovie for consumers when it was first released. They were stunned by how easy it was to figure out and use.
(When Apple threw out the original iMovie and introduced the reimagined version, this core audience was immediately lost, to be replaced by a different group.)