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Steve jobs did let Ping and Mobile Me go out the doors. Oh yes, and the Apple Cube.

• aaronbrethorst 14y ago
  I thought the Cube was cool. The Blue Dalmatian and Flower Power iMacs on the other hand? ugh. http://daysofourlife.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/crazy-imac-designs-from-2001/ http://daysofourlife.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/crazy-imac-des...
  • Evbn 14y ago
    Obviously their massive sales numbers were unimpeded by their horrible color choice that did not affect the device function at all.
    • batista 14y ago
      Unimpeded? The color choice MADE the sales.
• baddox 14y ago
  Neither Ping nor Mobile Me replaced previous crucial functionality.
  • d503 14y ago
    E-mail is pretty crucial to me, and some MobileMe users couldn't access their mail for days. http://www.macworld.co.uk/macsoftware/news/?RSS&NewsID=22112 http://www.macworld.co.uk/macsoftware/news/?RSS&NewsID=2...
  • panic 14y ago
    MobileMe replaced .Mac, which provided crucial functionality like email. There were many fewer people affected, but the situation is similar.
  • jpxxx 14y ago
    To quibble: Mobile Me was a thorough replacement for iSync.
    • Evbn 14y ago
      At a higher price.
  • pooriaazimi 14y ago
    But iCloud (which he "blessed" and introduced at stage) replaced Mobile Me and killed iDisk (wiping a couple million web pages off the Internet), keychain-syncing, MobileMe gallery, iWork.com, ...
• robterrell 14y ago
  Wait, what was wrong with the cube, aside from price? I have that is still running today.
  • Evbn 14y ago
    It had infamous case cracking problems, like the white ibook did later.