The Apple of My i



You would think today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss would be easy -if you're an Apple fan. Test your Apple knowledge with ten questions about the history of the company and its products. It's not easy -I've used nothing but Apple computers for twenty-five years and I only scored 40%! I bet everyone who beats that score will leave a comment about it. Link

30% by sheer guessing!
The only one I actually knew was what replaced the iPod mini, and only because the iPod nano was just released when I was able to buy one.
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Score: 80% (8 out of 10)

Missed the Mona Simpson one and the iPod Nano predecessor... Not much of a lock-in music player fan.

Heh, Besides finding (technical) computer history interesting (mouse is older then you think, seen pics of the original, it was ugly), I saw the Lisa new in the stores prior to the Macintosh, and at work we've been using Macs for over 20 years si I know the more orchestral startup sound started somewhere around the beginning of the PPC era.
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i got 70% almost all guesses. i was sure of the pixar one and i definitely knew that the nano replaced the mini but thats a pic of a shuffle! threw me off
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60%, let's say "educated" guesses. Those last two are pretty obscure, but I guess that's what separates the macheads from the fanpersons.
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70% And there were a couple I should have gotten. I just passed on Mona, though.

@12 Pi It was the first with the recording. The earlier ones did a chord that functioned as a diagnostic tool. With some training you could narrow the problem down by hearing what was off in the startup chord.
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