The HP iPod? 7 forgotten Apple products you didn’t even know existed

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Apple might be responsible for some of the most famous and successful products in human history, but not everything the company touches turns to gold.

While billions of iPhones and millions of iPods and iPads have been sold, there’s a rogues’ gallery of Apple creations that had far less impact and ended up being consigned to the footnotes of tech history.

Some you might have heard hushed mentions of, while others barely exist on the margins of the internet, but there’s a good chance you’ve never seen any in ...