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Shortest Lived IT Products
Fremont: When a company invests in a product, it expects the product to do well, but some products fail to keep up with the company’s repute. Here are few products, which saw the daylight for a very short span of time.
Apple Power G4 Cube
Apple’s Power Mac G4 Cube, a sleek Mac desktop computer, was introduced in 2000 and discontinued in 2001. The Cube had a PowerPC G4 processor and an unconventional vertical slot for loading CDs or DVDs. It required a monitor with an ADC or VGA connection, and had an upgradable video card in the AGP slot. The Cube was criticized for being more expensive (it costed $1799) AND less-equipped than the Power Mac G4. The initial versions of the Cube had a manufacturing defect, leading to faint lines in the plastic case. Apple tried to boost the sales by offering more software with the Cube, lowering the price of the base model, and redesigning the unconventional CD-DVD drive, but none of these efforts could save the Cube. Apple announced that it was discontinuing the Cube in July 2001.
