Apple's next generation iPhone, dubbed iPhone 5, is all the hype right now, but not all Apple products have always done so well in the past. This may be an opportune time to switch focus from the iPhone 5 and review some of Apple's successes and failures to date. After all, every company had to have misses to have hits.

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OS X
Apple's OS upgrade. Creative Commons
G4 Cube
The cube design didn't catch on. Creative Commons
The Lisa
The 1983 Apple computer. Creative Commons
MessagePad
The Apple MessagePad. Creative Commons
Gift items
iPods, iPads and camcorders were the bribes, masked as gifts, given by companies to 110 councils and local organisations in exchange for more orders, were uncovered by an ongoing NSW corruption probe. Creative Commons
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