The five Apple products that flopped

Apple Newton: Released much ahead of its time in 1993, the Newton (official name was MessagePad) was touted as the future of computing. It would be the first in a new line of PDAs. The Newton's $ 1,000 price tag, poor handwriting recognition and large size pushed it towards failure.

Apple Lisa: Way back in 1983, Apple released the Lisa, one of the first commercial personal computers to have a GUI and a mouse. One of the main reasons of Lisas failure was its astonishing price of $ 9,995 ( around $ 21,500 in todays rate).

Macintosh Portable: The Macintosh Portable was Apples first portable computer. Launched in 1989, it was powered by a Motorola 68000 processor at 16 MHz and had 1 MB of RAM ( expandable to 8 MB). It was bigger than a briefcase, which made it unacceptable.

Macintosh TV: The limited- edition TV introduced in 1993 failed because it could not display TV feeds on desktop window and mediocre graphical performance.

Motorola ROKR: The iPhone is not Apples first cell phone; in 2005 it partnered with Motorola for the ROKR phone. It flopped mainly because of its awfully slow transfer rates.