Question: How many Macs did Apple sell worldwide during the 2009 holiday season?
Answer: 3.36 million

Question: What was Apples market share of all computer shipments in 2010?
Answer: 7.3%

Question: What was Apples market share of all computer shipments in 2011?
Answer: 9.3%

Question: What ranking was Apple in the PC global market share during 2014?
Answer: about 6%

Question: Who outperformed Apple in the 2014 PC global market share?
Answer: Lenovo, HP, Dell and Acer

Question: In 1987, what did Apple spin off its software business as?
Answer: Claris

Question: Which series of applications was Claris responsible for inventing?
Answer: "Pro" series

Question: What did Claris rename the Informix Wingz spreadsheet program?
Answer: Claris Resolve

Question: What was ClarisWorks renamed beginning with version 5.0?
Answer: AppleWorks

Question: When was ClarisWorks reincorporated back into Apple?
Answer: 1998

Question: What two applications came bundled with Macs 2 days after "1984" was aired?
Answer: MacWrite and MacPaint

Question: Why did many software developers choose not to redesign the Mac operating system and rewrite the programming code?
Answer: This was a time-consuming task

Question: What year did Microsoft's MultiPlan migrate over from MS-DOS?
Answer: 1984

Question: What year was Apple's Macintosh Office suite introduced?
Answer: 1985

Question: What did Apple's "Lemmings" ad, which introduced Macintosh Office, do that made the ad unsuccessful?
Answer: insulting its own potential customers

Question: According to NPD, who has generally dominated the premium PC market?
Answer: Apple

Question: What was Macintosh ranked on the "list of intended brands for desktop purchases" for the 2011 holiday season?
Answer: third

Question: Who did Macintosh displace from 2nd place on the 2012 holiday season "list of intended brands for desktop purchases"?
Answer: Hewlett Packard

Question: Who did Macintosh displace from 1st place on the 2013 holiday season "list of intended brands for desktop purchases"?
Answer: Dell

Question: Which of Apple's products is focused on the ultraportable niche of PC's?
Answer: MacBooks

Question: What part of the Mac's could not be expanded easily in 1984?
Answer: memory

Question: What did Mac's lack in 1984 and have no means to easily attach?
Answer: a hard disk drive

Question: What did some small companies suggest Mac's 16 memory chips be replaced with?
Answer: larger-capacity chips

Question: How much more memory did Apple's Macintosh 512K, introduced in 1984, have than the original?
Answer: quadruple

Question: What was replaced in the upgrade that was offered for 128k Macs?
Answer: the logic board

Question: On what grounds did Apple sue Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard in 1988?
Answer: they infringed Apple's copyrighted GUI

Question: How was the lawsuit decided for Apple vs. Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard?
Answer: against Apple

Question: How long did the FSF boycott GNU software for the Macintosh platform?
Answer: seven years

Question: What are some of the issues Apple cited in the lawsuit against Microsoft and HP?
Answer: the use of rectangular, overlapping, and resizable windows

Question: What did the FSF feel that Apple was trying to monopolize on?
Answer: GUIs in general

Question: What did Apple's creation of too many similar models do to potential buyers?
Answer: confused potential buyers

Question: What was the hardware manufactured by third parties for Apple's System 7 known as?
Answer: Macintosh clones

Question: What did the Macintosh clones provide for consumers?
Answer: cheaper hardware

Question: What did Macintosh clones succeed in increasing for Macintosh?
Answer: market share

Question: Who did the Macintosh clones hurt financially?
Answer: Apple

Question: When did Apple begin shipping computers with CD-RW drives?
Answer: early 2001

Question: Who admitted that Apple was late to the party with writable CD technology?
Answer: Steve Jobs

Question: What did Apple begin offering as standard features meant for playing DVD's?
Answer: DVD-ROM and DVD-RAM drives

Question: Which Apple campaign did some people feel encouraged media piracy?
Answer: "Rip, Mix, Burn"

Question: What is the name of one of Apple's unsuccessful products?
Answer: Power Mac G4 Cube

Question: What was the name of Apple's first portable computer?
Answer: Macintosh Portable

Question: When was the Macintosh Portable first released?
Answer: 1989

Question: What replaced the Macintosh Portable in 1991?
Answer: the PowerBook line

Question: What was the 1993 PowerBook 165c Apple's first portable computer to feature?
Answer: a color screen

Question: Which generation of PowerBooks introduced trackpads?
Answer: second

Question: What was Apple's Mac OS X based on?
Answer: Darwin and NEXTSTEP

Question: Who did Apple make Maverick free to?
Answer: everyone running Snow Leopard or later

Question: What computers is Maverick compatible with?
Answer: most Macs from 2007 and later

Question: What brought better multi display support to Mac?
Answer: Mavericks

Question: When was Mavericks introduced?
Answer: 2013

Question: What desktop did Apple release after the discontinued Power Macintosh G3?
Answer: Power Mac G4 Cube

Question: Why were sales of the Power Mac G4 Cube slow?
Answer: too expensive

Question: What did the Power Mac G4 have trouble overcoming after they dropped their price and upgraded their hardware?
Answer: earlier perception

Question: When was the Power Mac G4 discontinued?
Answer: July 2001

Question: How did the actual sales of the G4's compare to the sales expectations?
Answer: one third of expectations

Question: Historically, what is near-absent in Mac OS X compared to Microsoft Windows?
Answer: malware and spyware

Question: When did Mac OS X experience a large increase in malware attacks?
Answer: early 2011

Question: How was Mac's malware seen by many Mac users in 2011?
Answer: an increasing problem

Question: How many users were affected by the increase in malware?
Answer: 100,000

Question: What were Apple support staff initially instructed not to assist with concerning malware?
Answer: the removal

Question: What was the market share of OS X in North America by March 2011?
Answer: slightly over 14%

Question: Being positioned as a higher end PC, what is it misleading to compare the Mac to?
Answer: a budget PC

Question: Apple has remained profitable since what time?
Answer: Steve Jobs' return

Question: According to market research, who does Apple draw it's customer base from?
Answer: a higher-income demographic

Question: Whose return to Apple resulted in the company's reorganization?
Answer: Steve Jobs

Question: Who refused to lower the profit margins on Mac computers in 1989?
Answer: Jean-Louis Gassée

Question: What problem rocked the PC industry in 1989?
Answer: a component shortage

Question: What did the component shortage of 1989 force Allan Loren to do with Macs?
Answer: cut prices

Question: Who was Allan Loren?
Answer: Apple USA head

Question: When was Microsoft Windows 3.0 released?
Answer: May 1990

Question: What did Apple begin to eliminate in 2002?
Answer: CRT displays

Question: Why was the new iMac G4 considerably more expensive than the G3?
Answer: higher cost of the LCD technology

Question: Who did Apple create the more affordable eMac in April 2002 for?
Answer: the education market

Question: What was the main problem with the eMac's CRT?
Answer: relatively bulky and somewhat outdated

Question: After Apple's failed desktop sales, what products drove their sales growth?
Answer: the iPod portable music player and iTunes music download service

Question: In 2009, how many Macs sold were laptops?
Answer: seven out of ten

Question: What has helped Macs more directly compete with Windows on price and performance?
Answer: The use of Intel microprocessors

Question: In 2010, what did Apple receive before other PC manufacturers?
Answer: Intel's latest CPUs