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Was Making The iPhone 5C One Of Apple's Biggest Flops?

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Answer by Mark Rogowsky, Entrepreneur, raconteur, @maxrogo, on Quora,

Not even close.

Here are some that Apple would take back 10,000x over (each) before even slightly regretting the successful iPhone 5c

Newton MessagePad

A "tablet" ahead of its time. And also bad at pretty much everything.

Mac Cube

Steve Jobs loved the idea of a computer without a fan. He also loved the idea of cube-shaped computers. Neither worked right here.

Apple III

Even this machine hated itself. The chips tried to "walk off" the motherboard.

Apple QuickTake

It was heavy, only took a few pictures and only worked with Macs. In the 1990s. But hey, the rainbow logo!

"Puck" Mouse

Push up! No, UP! Wait? It's a circle? The company that popularized the mouse arguably shipped one of the worst ones ever. Jobs and Ive are responsible. Hey, no one's perfect, right?

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There are many others.

Apple tried to ship a modern OS for about a half decade for the Mac, often referred to as Copland. It failed. It built an online service called eWorld just as AOL was talking off. It launched a music-based social network called Ping that arguably died before birth. It tried to get into console gaming with the ill-fated Pippin.

The 5c has sold in the eight figures. It may not be your definition of success. Tim Cook admitted he hoped it would sell more, too, so you're in good company. But it's a success, not a failure. Apple has had many failures.

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