5 products that Apple should not have ever launched

Apple has accustomed us in recent years with the launch of products grandiose and technology revolutionizes setting sales records from the early days. It and the iPhone 5, which will be released on September 12th and which analysts estimate will sell over 10 million copies in its first week of release.

But Apple produces many things, not only the iPad, iPhone or MacBook Air, and some of them need to recognize and company are weak and are far from similar products of rivals.


Businessweek has made ​​a list of five products for customers who do not have interest in him aroused and tabelete smartphones from Apple.

If these products would disappear, perhaps there would be many users that they go missing. And Apple management should think about that every time that employees spend working with these products could be used to develop other products that really count.

Safari. It is a good browser, but not great.. Many people use Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer, so Safari never exceeded 10% of internet users. Chrome even has a free application for iPhone, therefore not being used even Safari on Apple products.

Pages. Is Apple application documents, but the third player in a game with only two players, comment Businessweek. Most people who want to write using Microsoft Word or Google Docs from, so do not need another editing program.

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Numbers. Another application of Apple without looking, like Pages. Is equivalent to Miscrosoft Excel, but Excel can not be beat by anyone.

Mission Control / Launchpad / Dashboard. Apple stubbornly impose all the desktop versions annoys everyone. Many users do not remember them only in the context that are difficult to use and are annoying.

Game Center. Apple's strategy to develop social networks has never been brilliant - remember the Ping, and the same thing happens with games platform