Slideshow: Apple hardware design mistakes
The iPod Hi-Fi (2006) ranks among Apple’s most baffling products. It introduced an expensive Apple-brand alternative to iPod speaker docks that cost hundreds of dollars less at a time when the market did not demand an audiophile-caliber listening experience from the iPod. But those are marketing mistakes.
Hardware-wise, the Apple placed the unit’s delicate iPod dock in an awkward spot atop the unit that made a docked iPod vulnerable to damage from a fall. Also, the unit’s included remote could control only part of the iPod's functionality—just forward/backward and volume control in a selected playlist.
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