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Order by the year each Apple product first went on sale. Drag or tap it onto the line
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Order by the year each Apple product first went on sale. You place all 40 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
40
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
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How the Apple products timeline game works
Apple's hardware, software and services fill this deck, from computers to music players, wearables and a headset, and you order each product by the year it first went on sale. The type of product is printed under the name. To start, one product sits on the timeline with its year visible. Choose a gap for every card after that. A correct guess brings up the year, and a wrong one puts the product in its real position anyway while you give up one of three lives.
The deck reaches back to the company's garage-built beginnings and runs through the lean years, the colorful comeback and the pocket-sized boom to recent wearables. Failed experiments and long-forgotten gadgets sit among the famous launches, and those oddities are the hardest to place. Product types repeat, with desktops and laptops turning up throughout, so the label under the name rarely settles it. Names stick around too: a product line can be much older than the version you own.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 40 cards you might be dealt, with 12 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Apple I Personal computer kit
- Apple II Home computer
- Lisa Desktop computer with a mouse
- LaserWriter Laser printer
- Macintosh Portable Battery-powered computer
- Newton MessagePad Personal digital assistant
- QuickTake Digital camera
- Pippin Game and multimedia console
- eMate 300 Keyboard PDA for schools
- iMac All-in-one desktop
- AirPort Wi-Fi base station
- Power Mac G4 Cube Cube-shaped desktop
- Mac OS X Operating system
- Xserve Rack-mount server
- iPod mini Compact music player
- Mac mini Small desktop
- iPod nano Flash music player
- Mac Pro Workstation tower
- iPhone Smartphone
- iPod touch Touchscreen media player
- MacBook Air Ultra-thin laptop
- iPad Tablet
- iPad mini Small tablet
- Apple Watch Smartwatch
- AirPods Wireless earbuds
- HomePod Smart speaker
- AirTag Item tracker
- Mac Studio Compact workstation
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