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Apple may not always be the first or the best at what it does but even the most cynical Apple hater can agree that it helps pave the way for the products we use today making technology more accessible to everyone I'm Vanessa Han Ariana filling in for iies and today I'll be counting down five of the most iconic Apple products ever made let's start in chronological order the year 1977 the product the Apple 2 this was not jobs in Wozniak's first computer but it was the first one with mass appeal and the one that put the duo on the radar unlike the first Apple which was more of a circuit board for experts the Apple 2 was a more integrated personal computer for everyone it sold for almost two decades before finally retiring in 1993 next we have the Macintosh in 1984 when it launched Apple had just introduced the Lisa less than a year before and was now looking to make its features mainstream like the Lisa the Macintosh featured a graphic user interface that Jobs borrowed from Xerox with the windows and cursor we still use today but unlike the Lisa which cost a modest 10 K at launch the Macintosh was more affordable and easier to set up and Apple made sure it would be a hit investing more than a million dollars in a Superbowl ad that would have made Orwell himself drop the remote fast-forward almost a decade and a half for our next one the iMac the computer the brought Apple out of the dark ages gave jobs a hell of a comeback and was Johnny eyes first big product design the computer itself was by no means the most powerful but with its built-in monitor bubble like plastic in the back in all the colors of the rainbow it proved yet again that Apple had high standards for design and usability and that we're all suckers for pink let's just say the iPod was Apple's way of ringing in the new millennium by 2001 there were already a slew of mp3 players out on the market but none like the iPod was the device that finally made us ditch our walkman 10 songs in a cassette that you ripped off from your local radio station versus a thousand songs in the palm your hand more importantly it's paved the way for that little no music service called iTunes which continues to be the reason why some people remain loyal to the Apple ecosystem we cap off our list with the iPhone you know it was coming hard to believe it was almost 10 years ago now that Steve Jobs presented what everyone thought were three different products an iPod an internet communicator and a phone we'll need to shock them all by revealing that he was actually talking about the same device the iPhone was by no means the first smartphone but it's credited for edging out the physical keyboard and making capacitive touchscreens a standard the phone took six months to finally go on sale and the absent come until a year later but it sure din a new era of connectivity so there you have them five products that stand the test of time cheers to the next 40 years of AI devices Apple