Every tech company has its ups and downs, but Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is more like a roller coaster. Yet Apple’s highs and lows are not so much about individual products as they are about attitudes and philosophies — the underlying causes of, say, both the iPad (triumph) and the Pippin (failure).
Here are Apple’s five greatest successes and most miserable failures. We’ll start with the failures first, just for fun.