If not fruit, what is an apple and an apricot?

Trollheart

They're both types of personal computers. Apple Macintosh and Apricot (don't know the full name, but they did make computers in the early 80s I think) Nov 13 06, 7:39 AM

crotalus77

Both are fruits. The apple is a pome or pomaceous fruit and the apricot is a drupe. Nov 13 06, 8:39 AM

nibbles0011

Thanks for that Nov 13 06, 9:29 AM

Baloo55th

Apricot started off as ACT, marketed a range of non-IBM compatible PCs that were reasonably advanced for their day, but without the something extra that Apple had. Later bought by Mitsubishi, and closed in the 90s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apricot_Computers Nov 13 06, 12:00 PM

Trollheart

nibbles, were you seriously asking if apples are fruit, or was the question meant, as I took it to be, as "what ELSE other than fruits could these things be?" Nov 13 06, 6:52 PM

Master_Algie

There are loads of other "apple"s: "The Apple," an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series The Apple (film), a 1980 Science-fiction, rock musical motion picture directed by Menahem Golan Apple Daily, a newspaper based in Hong Kong "The Apple, a one-act comedy written by American playwright Jimmy J. Brunnelle Apple Records, a record label founded by The Beatles, and Apple Corps, its holding company Apple (album), an album by Mother Love Bone Apple (band), a British psychedelic rock band Apple (automobile), an US car sold between 1917 and 1918 APPLE, Ariane Passenger Payload Experiment, India's first Geostationary communication satellite, launched June 19, 1981 Big Apple, a nickname for New York City Apple River, Illinois, a village Apple River (Illinois), a river Apple River, Wisconsin, a town Apple River (Wisconsin), a river Apples, Vaud, a commune in Vaud, Switzerland Apple Valley, Minnesota Apple is a surname, as seen with Benjamin, Charlie, and Fiona Apple. Also: a derrogatory term for a Native American who 'sells out' Native values for white culture (red on the outside, but white on the inside) Nov 14 06, 12:25 AM

Master_Algie

The Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies, or APRICOT, is the annual Internet operations conference for the Asia-Pacific region. http://www.apricot.net/ Nov 14 06, 12:27 AM