Long Visual Connect

This round had 16 sets of visuals related to the answer in different ways. The sets got easier from the 1st to the 16th visual.

The connect was APPLE.

Gil Amileo & John Sculley - Jobs departure from and return to Apple

Steve Jobs replaced Amileo when he returned to Apple in the 90s. Sculley ousted him in the power struggle of the 80s which caused Jobs to leave and start NeXT.

John Wiley & Sons have been banned from Apple Stores for publishing an unauthorized biography of Jobs called iCon. The Humane Interface was penned by Jef Raskin, the man behind the Macintosh. It discusses topics like Cognetics, Human-Computer Interfaces etc.

Kane Kramer & Tony Fadell - iPod

Kramer invented the digital audio player in 1979 from which the Apple iPod drew a lot. Fadell headed the team that invented the iPod.

Neil Aspinall and The Beatles

Aspinall was the manager of Apple Records, the records company of the Beatles after they split with EMI. There is a yet-to-be-resolved trademark dispute between Apple Inc. & Apple Records.

Ronald Wayne & Paul Rand - logo designers

Wayne is often referred to as the 'third founder' of Apple and designed the original logo featuring Newton. Paul Rand designed the NeXT logo.

Jeff Goldblum, Jerry Seinfeld & Richard Dreyfuss - Apple Ads

Lisa Jobs, Carl Sagan & Charles Darwin - People after whom Apple products are named

Lisa was the first Apple PC. Carl Sagan is the name of one of their processors (Sagan detested this and fought a case in court). Darwin is the name of the iPhone processor.

Eric Schmidt & Al Gore - Apple Board of Directors

Schmidt, in addition to being CEO of Google Inc. is also on the board of Apple. So is Gore.

Big Cats - Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Snow Leopard, Leopard, Cheetah - Codenames of MAC OSes


Ridley Scott & '1984' movie - Apple Ad in 1984
Scott directed the famous 1984 Apple ad based on Orwell's 1984. IBM was supposed to be 'Big Brother' in the ad.

Logos of Apple software - Safari broswer, XSAN (file storage system), Aperture (photo editor)

Nolan Bushnell & Breakout

Bushnell started Atari. Before founding Apple, Jobs & Wozniak used to make games for Atari. Wozniak created 'Breakout' (now Pinball) during the period.

2001 : A Space Odyssey & Mighty Mouse - Sources of Apple product names

iPod comes from the line in the '2001 ...' - "Open the pod bay doors, HAL'. Mighty Mouse (the name of the Apple mouse) is licensed from the popular cartoon character.

Isaac Newton & Alan Turing

The Apple logos make reference to these two. The first one features Newton. The second one has a chunk bitten out in reference to Turing who committed suicide by eating a poisoned Apple.

NeXT & Pixar - The two companies Jobs was CEO of other than Apple Inc.

Steve Wozniak & Steve Jobs - the founders

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