News that Apple is charging between $150 and $230 for a shoulder sock (the iPhone Pocket) designed to hold your iPhone—insecurely, I might add, since there’s no zipper or button for the opening—got me thinking about other famously silly products Apple has offered in the past, and what a rabbit hole I went down.

Rather than looking strictly at commercial failures, such as the Apple MessagePad, an iPad predecessor from 1993, or the Apple Pippin, a 1996 video game console that took on Sony’s PlayStation, I wanted to look strictly at past products that Apple introduced to rooms full of immediate huhs and whaaas, rather than oohs and ahhs.

the hall of shame

First up on our list is a glorified sock that has now returned to the limelight in the form of the iPhone Pocket. Introduced in 2004, Ap

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