Apple marketed the screenless 2005 iPod Shuffle as being roughly the size of which everyday item?

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When Apple's original iPod debuted in October 2001, which operating system was it built to work with exclusively?

Apple's first iPod required a Mac to function and couldn't work with Windows PCs, limiting its market to just 2% of computer users at launch.

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The original iPod, released in 2001, required which connector—standard on Macs but rare on Windows PCs at the time—to sync music from a computer?

Fire Wire was required to sync the original iPod, not USB. This obscure connector was the main reason early adopters faced steep hardware costs.

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What advertising tagline did Apple use to promote the original iPod Shuffle's shuffle-only playback in 2005?

The 2004 iPod Shuffle deliberately omitted a screen entirely, making it the first major music player sold blind—users couldn't see what they were playing.

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For Google Glass, what ultimately proved to be a bigger obstacle to its success than any rival product from a competing tech company?

Google Glass's biggest competitor wasn't other tech companies—it was widespread public hostility. Wearers faced social backlash and were dubbed 'Glassholes' before the product even launched.

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What key advantage did Ken Thompson's 1973 rewrite of Unix in C give the operating system over its original assembly-based version?

Unix was originally written in assembly language, but Ken Thompson rewrote it in C in 1973 to make it portable—creating modern software portability.

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Gary Kildall founded which company to develop CP/M, the operating system that dominated early 1980s business computing?

CP/M dominated business computing in the 1980s, but IBM's choice of MS-DOS over it cost Digital Research founder Gary Kildall his billion-dollar fortune.