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Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for tech giant Apple's biggest commercial and marketing flubs.

They're using our own satellites against us.

Introduced in August of 1995, this laptop was practically a movie star, most famously appearing in Independence Day, which tied into Apple's The Power to Save the World campaign.

When you've got just 28 minutes to save the entire planet, the clock is ticking.

You better hope you got the right computer.

One month after that blockbuster debuted, the PowerBook 5300 was discontinued.

The laptop didn't wipe out any aliens, but multiple units caught fire.

In addition to the recalls and plummeting stock, the PowerBook 5300 wasn't helped by its price.

The cheapest model sold for $2,300, while the top-end version cost $6,800.

Considering that you can buy a modern MacBook Pro for somewhere between $1,300 and a little over $3,000, it's not surprising the PowerBook 5300 went up in flames.

They are the best iPhones we've ever done.

The iPhone 6 was met with several criticisms at launch, from performance issues to accusations of the product ripping off hair.

The complaint that gained the most attention was the iPhone's tendency to bend.

We're not just talking about users purposely putting pressure on their iPhones.

The product could reportedly curve in one's pocket if they were wearing tight pants.

Shortly after introducing the iPhone 6, Apple argued that they received only nine complaints about its flexibility.

Most consumers would agree that's nine too many.

Amid a lawsuit regarding touchscreen problems, it was revealed that Apple knew the latest iPhone was between 3.3 and 7.2 times more inclined to bend than the previous version.

Is this an iPhone or a Betty Spaghetti doll?

While Apple TV has seen great success in recent years, the company's initial venture into home entertainment left consumers changing the channel.

Hitting the scene in 1993, Macintosh TV was a hybrid device that served as a television and computer.

With streaming becoming the norm a couple of decades later, the device was ahead of the curve.

It was too ambitious for the time, however.

In addition to limited graphical capabilities and slow performance, you couldn't use the computer and TV simultaneously.

You would press a keyboard shortcut, you can assign your own keyboard shortcut, and it would fade out to the TV mode and then fade back into the desktop.

Throw in a price tag of just over $2,000, and it just made more sense for consumers to buy two separate devices.

Only 10,000 Macintosh TVs would be manufactured during its roughly five months on the market.

Apple's laptops have come a long way since the Macintosh Portable.

That said, there was nowhere to go but up.

You thought the PowerBook 5300 was overpriced?

With the hard drive, Macintosh Portable launched at $7,300, or more than $17,000 today.

His international business is organized around a Macintosh network.

Now with the Macintosh Portable, his office can go with him around the world.

Apple was nonetheless confident that they would sell 50,000 devices by the end of its first year.

It became clear that wouldn't happen with just 10,000 sold during the first quarter.

Aside from being too costly, this portable device was deemed too big and too heavy.

The Macintosh Portable didn't compensate in performance, with people criticizing the display and battery life.

After seven months, Apple lowered the price by $1,000, but the laptop barely lasted another year on the market.

One of the keys is right on the top, we've got a place to plug in your iPod.

We've got a universal iPod dock built right into the top of it.

This speaker system goes to show that an accessory should not be as expensive as the main attraction.

In 2006, you could buy a 60GB iPod with video for $349.

At that same price, you could purchase an iPod Hi-Fi.

Consumers with only $349 to spend naturally went with the iPod, as the speaker system was useless without the latter.

These kinds of products, you know, $800 and up, a lot of them cost over $1,000.

And we're delivering audio quality that is absolutely competitive.

Even if you could afford both, most people listen to their iPods on the go.

The iPod Hi-Fi had handles, but it wasn't exactly convenient to carry around.

While the iPod Hi-Fi was well-received tech-wise, the average consumer wasn't going to spend so much on a device that's really only good for parties.

Thus, it lasted just over a year and a half before being discontinued.

AirPower burned before it even had a chance to crash.

Need to charge your iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods at the same time?

With AirPower, you could charge all three at once.

As convenient as this sounded, consumers knew something was off when AirPower missed its scheduled 2018 release.

By March 2019, Apple claimed that AirPower couldn't meet their, quote, high standards.

More specifically, experts believed that AirPower was cancelled due to compatibility issues and the charging coils leading to overheating.

Third parties nonetheless tried to replicate what AirPower promised.

Apple also had more luck with the MagSafe charger in 2020.

On more than one occasion, Apple has banked on their consumer base being U2 fans.

Corresponding with the band's 2004 album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, Apple released the iPod U2 Special Edition.

The product came complete with the band's signatures and a red click wheel for some reason.

We guess that's cool if you're a U2 diehard, but for everyone else, it was hardly worth paying an extra 50 bucks.

Ten years later, 500 million iTunes users found that Apple dropped U2's Songs of Innocence album into their libraries for free.

Again, a nice gift if you love U2, but many were just annoyed, feeling that the band was forcing their music on them.

Bono even apologized, saying, quote, the self-promotion was, quote, a little noisy.

No, we're not talking about the 1997 crime drama starring Sylvester Stallone.

Honestly though, would anybody associate the name Copland with an Apple operating system?

Maybe if it was exclusive to law enforcement, but this was supposed to be a commercial release.

Conceived as a follow-up to System 7 and a competitor for Windows 95, Copland, or System 8, was to be Apple's most ambitious OS yet.

So ambitious that it was delayed multiple times and amassed a budget of $250 million per year.

Between the money being spent, impatient executives, and conflicting visions, Copland was cancelled after two years in development.

This led to Apple acquiring NeXT and bringing back Steve Jobs, turning a massive failure into an eventual success with Mac OS 8.

Although Jobs got Apple back on track, he didn't always have the best instincts.