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Discontinued Apple products
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Discontinued Apple products
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| Scope | Product lines Apple has retired — or never shipped |
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| Most recent | Mac Pro (March 2026) · Pro Display XDR (March 2026) |
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Apple kills its own products with unusual willingness — the floppy drive, the headphone jack, and entire beloved lines have all gone under the same knife. This page surveys the major retirements.
1 The graveyard✎
iPod (2001–2022): the product that saved Apple, made obsolete by the iPhone it financed; the iPod touch's quiet 2022 discontinuation ended the line. Newton (1993–1998): the PDA ahead of its time, executed on Steve Jobs's return. AirPort (1999–2018): Apple's routers, ceded to an industry it re-entered later via the N1. Mac casualties: the 12-inch MacBook, iMac Pro, the Cube — and, in March 2026, the Mac Pro itself, retired twenty years after its debut with the Mac Studio crowned the new flagship. Its display partner, the Pro Display XDR, fell the same month to the Studio Display XDR. First-generation orphans: the original HomePod (2018–2021, later revived) and the iPhone mini and Plus size experiments.
2 Never shipped✎
The Apple Car is the category's monument: a decade and a reported ten billion dollars, cancelled in 2024 without a wheel touching pavement. Beside it sit AirPower, the wireless mat announced and unannounced, and countless prototypes that exist only in patent filings and lore.
3 The pattern✎
Apple's discontinuations are strategy, not failure — each one frees the lineup to mean something: the iPod died so the iPhone could own music; the Mac Pro died because Apple silicon made the tower's expandability a solution without a problem. The company that deletes ports deletes products the same way: early, confidently, and without a memorial.
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