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The iPad sure looks great, but remember this?

Apple’s new products usually come with a tremendous amount of hype. No one knows how to stir the publicity machine better than Apple. But not all of its products have been hits. Remember the Power Mac G4 Cube? No? That’s because it was in production for only a year before Apple pulled the plug.

I thought I’d take a trip through the tubes to find something to refresh your memory, and I found this story from that fateful decision, from the Los Angeles Times in 2001.