Nor would he do a years long ad campaign based on having cases of different colors, or harp on the prettiness of his design.
And I seriously doubt he’d name a company after fruit :lol:
Apple designs its stuff as form follows function. Just look at the imac. They make everything small and easy to use and try to eleminate flashy things like lights and buttons. That’s one of Steve Jobs design philosophies, he hates buttons. I think its very Roark-like.
Ohh, and the different colors were when Steve Jobs was in exile from the company (he was forced out when he wouldn’t compromise on his projects).
Apparently the bitten apple symbol was a salute to Alan Turin who killed himself by eating a poisoned apple when he was prosecuted by the British government for being gay.
Apple designs its stuff as form follows function. Just look at the imac. They make everything small and easy to use and try to eleminate flashy things like lights and buttons. That’s one of Steve Jobs design philosophies, he hates buttons. I think its very Roark-like.
I’ve looked at the iphone. Instead of doing something simple like puching a button to answer a call, you ahve to slide fingers over the screen. That’s not what I’d call an improvement.
You know what’s good about the iphone? The app store. All cell phones can run many apps (they’re more like computers than phones now), but only Apple encourages their development and makes them easy to get. Other than that it’s just hype and marketing.
Ohh, and the different colors were when Steve Jobs was in exile from the company (he was forced out when he wouldn’t compromise on his projects).
I don’t care whose idea it was. For an awful long time all Apple could say was “look at the funky shape!” and “it comes in many colors!”
And it’s still named after fruit :lol:
BTW the design that started the thread, is it just me or does it completely lack USB ports? I saw PS/2 ports <shudder>
Apparently the bitten apple symbol was a salute to Alan Turin who killed himself by eating a poisoned apple when he was prosecuted by the British government for being gay.
Well the original Apple logo was a glowing apple hanging over Newton’s head, representing inspiration. You could also view the modern logo of an apple with a bite in it as the apple from the Tree of Knowledge in Eden.
Well the original Apple logo was a glowing apple hanging over Newton’s head, representing inspiration. You could also view the modern logo of an apple with a bite in it as the apple from the Tree of Knowledge in Eden.
I’m pretty sure that the modern logo is meant as a salute to Turin. That would make more sense than a religious example.
Yes, but the modern logo is an apple with a bite out of it and if you can also remember it used to be ‘multicoloured’. That fits nicely with my theory of a salute to Alan Turin who committed suicide by taking a bite out of a poisoned apple after being prosecuted for being gay.
The first Apple Logo Design was by Ron Wayne, who also co-founded the company. It was rather elaborate in comparison to its later incarnations; as it depicted Newton under the famous apple tree, deep in contemplation. Steve Jobs felt it was a little too intellectual, and that the details were hard to distinguish. For those reasons it was only used on the Apple I.
In 1977 a second attempt at Apple logo design was undertaken by art designer Rob Janoff. The logo design was very simple- an apple with a bite taken out of it, adorned with all the colours of the rainbow, albeit in the wrong order. The symbolism here was genius; the bite symbolized knowledge, as in the Garden of Eden, and was also a play on words, as in computer “byte”. The colors suggested vibrancy and energy, but the wrong ordering of these colors suggested a break from the establishment- freedom, daring and enterprise, sentiments most befitting such a revolutionary technology.
“Another explanation exists that the bitten apple pays homage to the mathematician Alan Turing, who committed suicide by eating an apple he had laced with cyanide.[122] Turing is regarded as one of the fathers of the computer. The rainbow colors of the logo were rumored to be a reference to the rainbow flag, as a homage to Turing’s homosexuality.” - Wikipedia
“Another explanation exists that the bitten apple pays homage to the mathematician Alan Turing, who committed suicide by eating an apple he had laced with cyanide.[122] Turing is regarded as one of the fathers of the computer. The rainbow colors of the logo were rumored to be a reference to the rainbow flag, as a homage to Turing’s homosexuality.” - Wikipedia
That unfortunately is an Urban Myth. The logo your referring to was the second one after they had already used the apple in relation to newton. They later went to a second designer (Rob Janoff) for the famous multicolored design. As for the “rainbow flag”(which actually isn’t a rainbow) Apple theory; Rob Janoff gave multiple designs with lots of colors and different designs ( including a polished steel version they now use). Steve Jobs selected the multicolored one for reasons I had already stated in a previous post.
The Alan Turing theory is a rather new “urban legend” started by the British press. If you look to the source of your wikipedia reference you’ll see that even your reference source claims:
While the Turing link to the Apple logo makes for interesting conversation, it doesn’t appear to stand up under close examination.
Don’t get me wrong though. I think Alan Turing was a genius and certainly deserves a memorial as fitting as the Apple logo; however the actual story is nearly as intriguing.