{"id":51740,"date":"2026-04-28T17:27:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=51740"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:27:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:27:33","slug":"my-favorite-apple-accessory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/28\/my-favorite-apple-accessory\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Apple Accessory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.relay.fm\/upgrade\/612\">Upgrade<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.relay.fm\/upgrade\/612\">\n<p>And when that&rsquo;s done, we finish our Apple at 50 coverage with a vibe-based draft.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2026\/04\/my-favorite-apple-accessory\/\">Dr. Drang<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2026\/04\/my-favorite-apple-accessory\/\">\n<p>My favorite picks were the oddballs, the products that weren&rsquo;t Macs, iPhones, iPads, iPods, or Apple IIs. In other words: the accessories. I was particularly pleased with Jason&rsquo;s picks of the LaserWriter, the Apple Disk II, the Apple Watch Sport Band, and the second generation Apple Pencil.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>My oddball entry would have been the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AirPort_Express\">AirPort Express<\/a>. This is not in the &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t believe you didn&rsquo;t pick&rdquo; category because it&rsquo;s an oddball even among oddballs, but for a short period of time for a specific subset of users, it was a great accessory.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>The AirPort Express was great. The other accessories I&rsquo;d highlight are the ImageWriter II and the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atpm.com\/14.05\/apple-keyboard.shtml\">aluminum keyboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/12\/apples-50th-anniversary\/\">Apple&rsquo;s 50th Anniversary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/11\/how-airport-changed-everything\/\">How AirPort Changed Everything<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/03\/brief-reviews-of-nearly-every-mac-keyboard\/\">Brief Reviews of (Nearly) Every Mac Keyboard<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upgrade: And when that&rsquo;s done, we finish our Apple at 50 coverage with a vibe-based draft. Dr. Drang: My favorite picks were the oddballs, the products that weren&rsquo;t Macs, iPhones, iPads, iPods, or Apple IIs. In other words: the accessories. I was particularly pleased with Jason&rsquo;s picks of the LaserWriter, the Apple Disk II, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-04-28T21:27:37Z","apple_news_api_id":"af4996b4-0e08-4bae-ac01-e80ba0c5d0db","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-04-28T21:27:37Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ar0mWtA4IS66sAegLoMXQ2w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1188,452,295,145,85,30,695],"class_list":["post-51740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-airport-express","tag-hardware","tag-history","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-mac","tag-printing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51741,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51740\/revisions\/51741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}