Rufe talla

Bayan ya koma shugaban kamfanin Apple a shekarar 1997, Ayyuka sun kawo karshen samar da wasu kayayyakin. Waɗannan galibi ba su dace da fayil ɗin kamfanin Cupertino ba ko kuma kawai babu buƙatar su daga abokan ciniki na ƙarshe. Duba samfurori guda biyar waɗanda basu da wuri a duniya. Daya daga cikinsu har da halittar Ayyuka.

Pippin

An ɓullo da Pippin azaman dandamali na multimedia bisa PowerPC Macs. Ko da yake yana kama da na'urar wasan bidiyo - cikakke tare da masu kula da sifar ayaba - an yi niyya don zama tashar watsa labarai. An buga lakabi na Pippin akan CD-ROM, wanda tsarin aiki da kansa ya kasance. Dandalin Pippin bai ƙunshi ƙwaƙwalwar ajiyar ciki ba.

Ɗaya daga cikin kamfani wanda ya ba da lasisin Pippin shine Bandai a cikin 1994. Sakamakon ya kasance wata na'ura mai suna Bandai Pippin @World, wadda za ku iya saya a baki da fari. Abin takaici, babu sauran wuri a kasuwa don na'urar. Consoles kamar su Nintendo 64, Sony Playstation da Sega Saturn sun riƙe muƙamansu sosai, don haka an ƙare wannan aikin a cikin 1997. Gabaɗaya, an sayar da na'urori 1996 da ke aiki da Pippin tsakanin 1998 da 12. Farashin ya kasance $000.

Newton

An gabatar da dandalin Newton na PDAs ga jama'a a cikin 1993 tare da na'urar MessagePad. A cewar shugaban kamfanin Apple na lokacin, John Sculley, ya kamata a ce irin wadannan na'urori su zama wani bangare na rayuwar yau da kullum. Don tsoron yiwuwar cannibalization na Macs, an gabatar da ƙaramin ƙirar (9 × 12 ″) baya ga mafi girma samfurin (4,5 × 7 ″).

An soki MessagePad na farko saboda rashin fahimtar rubutun hannu da rashin kyawun batirin AAA. Duk da wannan gazawar, lokacin da aka fara rarraba, an sayar da raka'a 5 cikin sa'o'i, farashin dala 000 kowanne. Kodayake Newton bai taɓa zama flop ko cin kasuwa ba, Ayyuka sun ƙare a cikin 800. Shekaru goma bayan haka, Apple ya fito da wani dandamali wanda ya canza duniyar na'urorin hannu gaba daya - iOS.

Anniversary Mac

Matsakaicin farashi - wato kalmar da ta bayyana wannan kwamfuta (TAM - Twentieth Anniversary Mac) da aka yi don cika shekaru 20 da kafuwar Apple. An kawo shi gida cikin motar daukar kaya, direba sanye da tuxedo da farar safar hannu. Tabbas TAM ya kwance muku kayan kuma ya saita shi a wurin da kuka ayyana. An kuma samar da tsarin sauti na Bose tare da TAM. Maɓallin madannai ma yana da hutun wuyan hannu.

An ƙaddara TAM don bayyana gazawar. A farashin $ 9, babu wani abu da za a iya tsammanin, musamman lokacin da aka saki PowerMac 995 wata daya a baya tare da kusan daidaitaccen tsari na kashi biyar na farashin. AKWAI rangwame zuwa $6500 bayan an sayar da shekara guda a watan Maris 1998 zuwa bacewa daga ɗakunan ajiya.

klony

A cikin 1994, Apple yana da kashi 7% na kasuwar kwamfuta ta sirri. Don ƙara wannan lambar, hukumar gudanarwa ta yanke shawarar fara ba da lasisin tsarinta ga wasu masana'antun kamar DayStar, Motorola, Power Computing ko Umax. Duk da haka, bayan clones sun shiga kasuwa, rabon OS mai lasisi bai karu ba ta kowace hanya, akasin haka, tallace-tallace na kwamfutocin Apple ya ragu. Abin farin ciki, lasisin an rufe shi kawai System 7 (sau da yawa ana kiransa Mac OS 7).

Bayan dawowarsa, Jobs ya soki shirin kuma bai mayar da shi ga Mac OS 8 ba. Ta haka Apple ya dawo da ikon sarrafa masarrafan da Mac OS ke gudanar da su. Koyaya, har zuwa kwanan nan sun sami ƙaramin matsala tare da clones na Psystar.

Cube

Kayayyakin guda huɗu da suka gabata sun kasance a duniya kafin Ayyuka su dawo ga Apple. An fito da Cube ne kawai a cikin Yuli 2000, yana nuna processor 4MHz G450, rumbun kwamfutarka 20GB, 64MB na RAM akan $1. Wannan ba irin wannan mummunan farashi ba ne, amma Cube ba shi da ramukan PCI ko daidaitattun abubuwan sauti.

Abokan ciniki ba su da dalilin son Cube, saboda $ 1 za su iya siyan PowerMac G599 - don haka ba lallai ne su sayi ƙarin saka idanu ba. Rangwamen $4 da canjin kayan aiki ya biyo baya. Amma ko da hakan bai taimaka ba, don haka kubu mai haske da Jonathan Ive ya ƙera ya zama flop. Cube wani lokaci ana kiransa o Yaron Ayyuka.

Source: ArsTechnica.com
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