[dkarp]

I didn't know about the Cube[1], so thanks for sharing. Only sold for 1 year and then discontinued.

Laptops are now dominant and have outsold desktops for a long time, but in year 2000 that wasn't the case. So the Cube seems like a false start down that path. Kind of like Jobs knew the future, but was a little too ahead of his time on that one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube

[gumby]

Oh, then you missed the time they staged an entire press event to announce...an iPod dock!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Hi-Fi

Hell, I own an Apple battery charger for AA batteries. Actually at the time it came out it was reasonably priced, plus it uses the same AC power connectors as apple computer chargers so was actually handy when traveling. But nevertheless, absurd.

[Lammy]

Stebe seemed to have a thing for cubes. The G4 Cube is a throwback to the much more famous NeXT case design, though the original black cube running "Next Step" was perhaps a little too on the nose:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTcube

http://www.magicgatebg.com/Books/Aleister%20Crowley/Heart_of...

There's also the 30ft glass cube Apple Store that opened in Manhattan in 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Fifth_Avenue