Comments on: Apple Prototypes: 5 Products We Never Saw

By: Chris Baker

Chris Baker — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:24:54 +0000

Cool to see the Paladin. I worked on that product at a sub-contractor doing the phone, fax, voice mail, and modem functionality. A buddy of mine still has a Paladin that works even to this day. Every couple of years he pulls it out and we boot it up to see if it still works.

As far as I know, the product was about ready to go into production with full tooling (word was they spent 36-40 million) done and ready to go in Taiwan. CEO Gill A. killed it and a lot of other projects when he took over. It took so long to get the product designed and tooling done that many of the parts were going out of life cycle as production neared. I recall that it was being developed the near the 680X0 to PowerPC chip transition leaving the Paladin on the wrong side of the divide.

I remember hearing rumors that about 30 of them were made on production tooling and many of them were destroyed after the project was killed.

I still think Apple could be one of the greatest consumer product companies in the world. Apple coffee maker anyone? (Hey..don’t laugh…Porsche has a design studio.)

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By: Joanne

Joanne — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:34:36 +0000

Wonderful to see my picture of W.A.L.T. here. Yes, that is my picture, taken on my leather ottoman. I sold it on eBay a few years back. To my knowledge it is the only one of its kind left. Every picture I see on the Internet is a pic I took. I thought one of the first comments was funny because the poster was wondering how many of these wonderful ‘gems’ have been accidentally thrown out… and yes, I did almost throw it away. I decided to see what would happen to it on eBay and got over 1 million hits in 4 days. Global tracking showed an IP from every country except the Vatican hit it. It funded the rest of my medical education, plus for a few years it was a really cool phone… until it died! My favorite memory of WALT is in the instruction booklet where it said… “Do not drop W.A.L.T.” No kidding! I swear I did not drop it…it just wore out and died of natural causes… Joanne

By: Doodee

Doodee — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:06:14 +0000

Thanks for sharing

By: Cinco prototipos de Apple que nunca vieron la luz | Teleobjetivo

Cinco prototipos de Apple que nunca vieron la luz | Teleobjetivo — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:58:22 +0000

[...] nuevos productos, pero de todos los que conciben, solo unos pocos consiguen llegar al mercado. En este artículo podemos ver cinco de esos prototipos que no llegaron a verse en la [...]