Apple’s best product in its first 50 years | The Verge
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From the Macintosh to the iPhone to the iMac to the iPod, it’s hard to pick a best Apple product ever. But we tried to do so anyway.
PodcastsAITechApple’s best product everOn The Vergecast: AI’s pivot to business, and the impossible task of ranking Apple’s 50 best products.On The Vergecast: AI’s pivot to business, and the impossible task of ranking Apple’s 50 best products.by David PierceApr 3, 2026, 12:52 PM UTCLinkShareGiftPart OfApple @ 50see all David Pierce is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.All week, we’ve been asking you to help us rank the 50 best products Apple ever made, as we mark the company’s 50th anniversary. Thanks to everyone who pitched in — we ended up with more than 1.6 million votes! We also have lots of other coverage of Apple’s first half century, and you should check it all out. All those votes later, we have some answers. And some thoughts.Verge subscribers, don’t forget you get exclusive access to ad-free Vergecast wherever you get your podcasts. Head here. Not a subscriber? You can sign up here.On this episode of The Vergecast, after some housekeeping (vote for us in the Webby Awards, and come see Sneakers with us in New York in a few weeks!) and some OpenAI news, Nilay and David dig into the rankings. First we go through the overall results, reacting our way from number 50 to number 11.Then, we compare your top 10 to our own rankings, which we’ve been making and tweaking for weeks. Turns out, we all agree on some big things — and we have a few to argue abo...
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