Apple’s best product ever

Apr 03, 2026 07:52 PM - 1 month ago 36367

David Pierce

is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host pinch complete a decade of acquisition covering user tech. Previously, astatine Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.

All week, we’ve been asking you to thief america rank the 50 champion products Apple ever made, arsenic we people the company’s 50th anniversary. Thanks to everyone who sounded successful — we ended up pinch much than 1.6 cardinal votes! We besides person lots of different sum of Apple’s first half century, and you should cheque it each out. All those votes later, we person immoderate answers. And immoderate thoughts.

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On this section of The Vergecast, aft immoderate housekeeping (vote for america successful the Webby Awards, and come spot Sneakers with us successful New York successful a fewer weeks!) and some OpenAI news, Nilay and David excavation into the rankings. First we spell done the wide results, reacting our measurement from number 50 to number 11.

Then, we comparison your apical 10 to our ain rankings, which we’ve been making and tweaking for weeks. Turns out, we each work together connected immoderate large things — and we person a fewer to reason about. Is it recency bias, anti-printer bias, aliases thing else? Who knows.

After that, it’s clip for the lightning round, pinch different version of Brendan Carr is simply a Dummy, immoderate much gadget value hikes, Nilay’s adventures successful iMac repurposing, and more.

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