Discussion
m4tthumphrey: Cool idea but I am not old enough/have not have enough (any) interest in some of the older products, so I think a "skip" option would be cool.
uticus: The results seem reasonable.https://www.theverge.com/cs/tech/900477/apple-50-anniversary..., or click "See results"
genthree: I disagree with "original iPad" being the highest-placed product in that line. iPad 2 should have that spot, no question. A product so successful they sold it for a really long time, plus its guts served in the also-long-lived first gen iPad mini. It was a giant improvement over the original iPad, with a crazy-long support life and outstanding performance characteristics.
Molitor5901: QuickTime and FaceTime are useful but I never thought of them as especially innovative. HyperCard, OSX, the phones, those really moved things forward independently of the rest of the industry. Perhaps I don't appreciate the software side enough.
mistersquid: Old guy, here.This ranking is fun and the as-of-now results mostly track.1. Original iPhone2. M1 Chip3. Original iPod4. Original Macintosh5. Mac OS XThough I’d put them in a different order.
kemotep: Whatever model Classic Mac that supported the Apple ][e expansion card, Apple DOS expansion card, and Apple Unix install (getting you System 7? 8?, DOS, original Apple, and a commercial Unix) has got to be up there at least for the novelty for me.
karel-3d: Why they don't include the recently discontinued 700 USD Mac Pro Wheels?
halapro: This is only for really old people. I entered Apple's ecosystem 20 years ago and I've never seen half of these products in real life.I'm surprised that The Verge went ahead with this, but knowing the state of things, I'm sure they coded some guy's idea and never thought about the (tiny) demographic interested in this.
716dpl: Watch your mouth, kid!
steve1977: I mean, choosing the best product of the last 50 years kind of implies a certain age, doesn't it?
exogeny: People are INSANELY sleeping on Hypercard.
kube-system: I think others are ranking it not that way because of the hardware, but because of the concept and how it dramatically changed the market for tablet computers.
tempoponet: You're right for the same reason that the original iPhone outranks the iPhone 3Gs.
mingus88: These subjective evals are why community reviews are garbage.Personally I think the 3GS is a better product. I know a few folk who returned their original iPhone because the headphone jack didn’t allow their headphones to connect, and there were obvious limitations that weren’t addressed until the 3GSThe iPhone was revolutionary no argument. But that doesn’t mean later revs were not better products for their time.
swasheck: HyperCard was a revelation to me in high school. it piqued such an interest in technology for me that i fully pivoted from exploring civil engineering to computer sciences.
somat: I have a slightly stupid take on tier lists I put together recently. A perfect chance to try it out.https://compare.outband.netIt started as a shower thought on how to rank arbitrary items and ended as a janky web app written by a backend luddite who refuses to use frameworks. So here it is, a better tier list... Or not, it sort of sucks in practice.For fun, Here is my order.https://compare.outband.net/compare/app/compare.html?pop=app...
yalogin: This just shows the hold Apple has on our collective minds. No such showboating for ibm, Microsoft, Amazon or Google. May be Google and Amazon are still young relatively. IBM totally is out of tech people’s minds and they themselves think of them as a consulting company.
Benjamin_Dobell: Live rankings currently have Mac OS X first... h... how?Apple make so so much wonderful hardware! They always have. Their software on the other hand is near universally awful. I love my Macbook, but my gosh, I do not love whatever the latest flavour of macOS is that Apple have decided to throw on their update servers this year. It just so happens that I also enjoy Unix, so I spend a lot of my time in a terminal - but Apple don't get to claim credit for that!EDIT: OK. It just refreshed and is now showing Mac OS X as 36th over all. Crisis of faith averted.
halapro: sorry pawpaw
