Back in 1994, technology giant Apple released the QuickTake one hundred, which is widely considered one of the very first consumer digital cameras ever made. Long before the iPhone put a high powered camera in everyone's pocket, this device connected to a computer through a serial cable and could store up to eight pictures in its internal memory.
Co developed with Kodak and manufactured by Chinon in Japan, it cost around seven hundred dollars at launch. Despite its low resolution of point three megapixels and a lack of a zoom lens, PC Magazine named it the best product of the year in 1994.
Apple eventually discontinued the QuickTake camera line in 1997 after Steve Jobs returned to the company and streamlined their product offerings to save the struggling business. Today, it remains a fascinating piece of early digital photography history that paved the way for modern smartphones.
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