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Wait, what was wrong with the cube, aside from price? I have that is still running today.

It had infamous case cracking problems, like the white ibook did later.

I thought the Cube was cool. The Blue Dalmatian and Flower Power iMacs on the other hand? ugh. http://daysofourlife.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/crazy-imac-des...

Obviously their massive sales numbers were unimpeded by their horrible color choice that did not affect the device function at all.

Unimpeded? The color choice MADE the sales.

Neither Ping nor Mobile Me replaced previous crucial functionality.

E-mail is pretty crucial to me, and some MobileMe users couldn't access their mail for days.

http://www.macworld.co.uk/macsoftware/news/?RSS&NewsID=2...

MobileMe replaced .Mac, which provided crucial functionality like email. There were many fewer people affected, but the situation is similar.

To quibble: Mobile Me was a thorough replacement for iSync.

At a higher price.

But iCloud (which he "blessed" and introduced at stage) replaced Mobile Me and killed iDisk (wiping a couple million web pages off the Internet), keychain-syncing, MobileMe gallery, iWork.com, ...