Apple has made a whole lot of great products that people love. However, it takes a lot of mistakes to get to the good stuff. Many Apple products have been failures in the market, some due to the fact that they were too expensive. Here’s a look back in time.

The Apple Lisa. Ah, the Lisa. Back in the days before there was a Mac, the Lisa was created. One of the first commercial computers put on the market, it was designed for individuals instead of businesses and was intended as a step towards getting the average person to use a home computer. Unfortunately, the average person didn’t have £5000 ($10,000) to spend on a personal computer at that time.

The Runners Up:

• The TAM. In 1997, Macintosh celebrated its twentieth birthday by releasing a computer called the TAM (The Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh). It had a thin monitor compared to other products on the market at the time and was advanced in several other ways. However, nobody wanted to pay the £3830 ($7500) retail price so it was discontinued almost as soon as it was released. Those Mac-committed folks who did buy the TAM are part of a strong community devoted to the product.
• Macintosh Portable. Would you pay £3319 ($6500) for a portable computer? Apple thought that customers would when this first notebook was released in the 1980s. Bigger than a briefcase in size, it wasn’t very appealing to most people. However it was an important step towards eventually developing the laptops that are in widespread use today. Too bad it didn’t last even a year on the market because of the exorbitant price.