A closer look
Apple actually created a digital camera way back in 1994 called the QuickTake, and it was an absolute disaster that looked like a weird pair of futuristic binoculars. Built in partnership with Kodak, this chunky plastic brick could store a whopping eight photos at a glorious resolution of 640 by 480 pixels before you had to offload them to a computer. It had no LCD screen to preview your shots, meaning every photo was a terrifying gamble of focus and framing. Steve Jobs ruthlessly killed the product line when he returned to the company in 1997, probably because he could not stand the sight of it. It is endlessly amusing that the company now famous for convincing people to buy a new thousand-dollar phone every year purely for a slight camera upgrade originally started their photography journey with a device that possessed the visual fidelity of a murky potato
