My Favorite Apple Accessory
And when that’s done, we finish our Apple at 50 coverage with a vibe-based draft.
My favorite picks were the oddballs, the products that weren’t Macs, iPhones, iPads, iPods, or Apple IIs. In other words: the accessories. I was particularly pleased with Jason’s picks of the LaserWriter, the Apple Disk II, the Apple Watch Sport Band, and the second generation Apple Pencil.
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My oddball entry would have been the AirPort Express. This is not in the “I can’t believe you didn’t pick” category because it’s an oddball even among oddballs, but for a short period of time for a specific subset of users, it was a great accessory.
The AirPort Express was great. The other accessories I’d highlight are the ImageWriter II and the original aluminum keyboard.
Previously:
- Apple’s 50th Anniversary
- How AirPort Changed Everything
- Brief Reviews of (Nearly) Every Mac Keyboard
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For anyone old-enough to have used a Radio Shack cassette recorder to store and load programs, the (perhaps oddball today) entry would be the Apple Floppy disk drive.
I loved the AirPort Express, not so much as a travel router, but as the cheapest way to make a HiFi setup AirPlay compatible thanks to its 3.5mm combo optical and electrical audio out jack.
@Fazal Yep, I used an AirPort Express to play music in my kitchen, and they were also good as print servers.
