Apple turns 50 next week, and as part of The Verge's coverage we're ranking the 50 greatest products the company has ever created. The first step: deciding which 50 belong on the list. So Nilay and David got on the mic and hashed it out, debating which PowerBooks and PowerMacs deserved the shine, which iPhones are the best iPhones, and whether AirPlay or AirDrop is the bigger innovation. This is a wonky one, folks, but we had fun making the list and we thought you might enjoy listening. And we hope you'll tell us what we missed! Call the Vergecast Hotline (866-VERGE11), send us an email (vergecast@theverge.com), tell us everything you think we got wrong. And make sure you go rank the products yourself!
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00:00 Intro
00:26 Apple 50th Anniversary
02:05 Defining What Counts
04:41 MacBook Air and M1 Debate
06:49 PowerBooks and Early Laptops
14:28 Core Apple Hits List
17:37 iPhone Picks
24:24 More iPods and Shuffles
28:37 Adding Macs iMacs and AirPods
35:52 Printers and Desktop Publishing
40:24 Keyboards Mice and Mac Classics
46:39 Software Makes The Cut
47:30 QuickTime And HyperCard
50:10 Mac OS X
51:32 Cutting Down To 50
56:57 Eight Days Later Revisit
58:56 First Or Best Debates
01:13:13 Mac Mini And iPods
01:23:44 Final 50 And Ranker
01:25:29 How Voting Works
01:28:48 Wrap Up
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