'You've tarnished Apple's reputation': 11 things Apple got horribly wrong over the past 50 years

We're celebrating Apple's 50th birthday with a week of content about the tech giant. It covers everything from personal recollections from our writers to the greatest — and worst — Apple gadgets as voted by you, and you can read it all on our 50 years of Apple page.

This week marks Apple’s fiftieth anniversary, and the company has been a core pillar of the tech landscape for much of that time.

From the iPhone to the evolution of the Mac, Apple has had a glorious run of wins. But sometimes its reach exceeds its grasp, usually when it turns to form over function, or when it underwhelms by overpromising and underdelivering.

We've already rounded up Apple's worst-ever gadgets (and, for balance, its best gadgets of the past half century). But the moments below represent its biggest lapses in judgement ...