>Apple has produced plenty of devices that didn't pan out.

Have they? They've launched particular versions of existing products that didn't sell too well, but have they ever launched a device which was was fundamentally new and didn't eventually sell a ton of units?

I know you're going to want me to post the Apple Newton to disagree with, but I'm not that easy to catch!

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

To be fair, that might as well be ancient history. I imagine more than 99% of Apple’s value comes from post-iPod activity, and I can’t think of anything post–OS X that failed, let alone post iPod.

The Newton would be the quintessential example.

HomePod

Pippin

Apple III

Apple Lisa

iPod HiFi

I was just thinking of the last few decades but yeah fair enough I had forgotten about the HomePod.

I don’t get this HomePod hate. I have the big (old gen) and small one, and they rock. We’re in allocated housing at the moment for my fiancées work and they have a shitty tv. I wouldn’t be able to hear the thing if it wasn’t playing through my HomePod. And that’s before the benefits of it as a speaker