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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

The Apple

Today I am going to talk about how the dark side of the source decided one of the most famous and most appreciated symbols, THE apple.

Apple's first logo lasted from 1971 to 1976. It was designed by Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne, and it shows Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree:
It didn't last much time, mainly because it was replaced the colored Apple designed by Rob Janoff in 1976. It's believed that this apple is a tribute mixing Isaac Newton's discoveries of gravity and the separation of light by prisms:
Another known explanation for the bitten apple exits, and it refers to the mathematician Alan Turing, who was founded dead apparently because of eating a cyanide-laced apple he left half-eaten beside his bed. Most believe this was a suicide. His mother, however, strenuously argued that the ingestion was accidental due to his careless storage of laboratory chemicals. The rainbow colors are attributed to Turing's homosexuality.

In 1998, with the iMac the monochromatic logo was released, conferred to the insistence of recently returned Steve Jobs. Right now no color is prescribed throughout Apple's software and hardware line.




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Master Yoda

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