What's the best Apple product ever designed?

iPhone 5s Space Grey

Newton MessagePad

By far the iPod classic. I also really liked the iPod nano touch which I wore around like a smart watch before one existed. It was actually amazing.

Since nobody says it so I will just say it.. the Macbook line.

Let's see if people have some sense in this thread! What's the best Apple product ever designed?

Apple Watch hands down for me.

Power Mac G4 Cube, it even won a spot in the Museum of Modern Art

iPhone XR Red. beautiful.

iPhone 5s

For me it started with iPod and but recent product is Airpods Pro they are really great.

I enjoy most Apple products, but AirPods were the first product I truly felt were magical. (I also think being a game changer doesn't necessarily correlate with being the best designed product of all-time... just a product that was better than the competition at its inception.)

Not a product per-se, but for me it's MagSafe. And sadly, they killed it :(

iPod>

iMessage

Airpods: Simple, unique, industry changing and just works!

From an aesthetic point of view, Apple products are deeply rooted in Dieter Rams design philosophy. In fact, they almost look identical side-by-side.

MacBook Air

Homepod, iMac G4, Iphone 5

the original ipod...it changed everything for Apple

2012 15-inch retina macbook pro. I used it for 5 years and even then could have happily stretched it longer. It lasted me well into the era of terrible macbooks plagued with problems. The performance even held up, with its discrete GPU and formidable processor handling pretty much everything I threw at it. In lots of ways it was superior to even my current 2019 16" like port selection (display port, HDMI, SD card, USB-A), real f-keys instead of useless and annoying touchbar, smaller and less accidental-input-prone trackpad, magsafe, headphone jack on the left side (the only side that makes sense), and better user-serviceability. It so far outclassed every other laptop at the time that you can't really even compare. The things I built with that computer and learned while using it transformed my career and my life.