Apple nabs four of Engadget's 10 gadgets of the decade

@ Jordan: "An OS that's going on almost 10 years stong and is still wildly popular. Yeah, it definitely deserves to be on there."

Nice try, but XP wasn't popular for 10 years because it was such a great product. It's been popular for so long because Microsoft failed to deliver a viable alternative until recently.

OS X was feature updated several times over the decade, but the overall user experience and look changed little between versions and has remained consistant. Furthermore, during that time, OS X managed to make its way across three different CPUs (PowerPC, Intel, ARM) running on three different products (Mac, iPhone, AppleTV).

Why do people keep talking about "the end of the decade"?
People, understand, the end of the decade won't be upon us until the END of 2010, not the end of 2009.

XP was groundbreaking in that everything was finally ported over to the NT codebase. It brought over the UI from 95/98, but that was about it. What wasn't groundbreaking was that XP wasn't designed with security at the core, and the mandatory inclusion of IE meant that it would eventually be child's play to hack.

John B (longtime Windows user)

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Oh please - to the MSFT shills posting here... get a life. And for Engadget to even include Windoze XP - that is truly pathetic.

I wouldn't argue with anything on that list.
I would like to see the AppleTV, AiO iMacs and Snow Leopard on their too, as well as Firewire Hard Drives, but to be honest, they really don't deserve it.

iPods and iPhones still affect iTunes (ahem "Digital media Sales") much more than AppleTV. More people still watch their TiVo's than AppleTVs.

All-in-Ones still haven't taken off, People still prefer Laptops for Mobility and Boxes due to the perception that Components are easily upgradable. (the fact that upgrading a 4 year old PC is more expensive than buying a whole new box negates that, but)

Snow Leopard only recently came out, but it is the first true 64-bit OS accepted on a realistic level. It also forced freshly-written device drivers for peripherals without adding feature bloat.

Firewire Hard Drives never really took off, but they heralded in e-SATA and USB2.0 HDD's which revolutionised Portable data storage, making MO Disks like ZIP, ORB, etc obsolete. Nowadays, you can sometimes buy USB2.0 HDD's cheaper than Internal Drives of the same capacity!

TUAW reposting Apple related content?!? The HORROR!
Seriously people, Apple was well represented on that list and rightfully so. Of course TUAW is going to acknowledge it.

I agree with the Engadget commenters though: The PS2 is woefully absent from the list. It was released in 2000 and they're still making games for it, with several releases scheduled for 2010.

Funny how Windows 7 didn't make it. Or rather, I suppose it did. Windows XP service pack 5 (SP 3 is out, Vista is pack 4, and Windows 7 is pack 5)

That's very surprising especially since Engadget constantly bashes Apple and insults Mac users. But then not even Apple hating Engadget can deny the truth.

This has got to be the most pathetic post ever. You are bragging about a post made by your sister site. You just HAD to repost it on TUAW saying that Apple made the list 4 times. Congrats, you now look like pathetic losers looking for any way possible to show how Apple is the "best". I have nothing against Apple, but was this post really necessary???

Not only do you brag about making the list 3 solid times and half of a 4th time, but you then argue that it should have beat out Windows XP. Lame.