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> Personally I think we're playing a high price for mobile phones. I do sometimes wonder if Steve Jobs was the antichrist or devil, or whatever. Introduced the
by nemo44x 4y ago
> Personally I think we're playing a high price for mobile phones.
I do sometimes wonder if Steve Jobs was the antichrist or devil, or whatever. Introduced the revolutionary smart phone complete with an icon of forbidden fruit with a bite taken from it. And then disappeared from Earth shortly after.
- cloutchaser 4y agoI’m surprised this is the first time I’ve heard this, at least the symbolic part of the bitten apple is pretty wierd. Did anyone ever talk about this seriously?
- Karellen 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.#Logo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.#Logo Note that the logo was introduced in 1976, more than 30 years before the introduction of the iPhone.
- cloutchaser 4y agoOk, but it’s still really strange symbolism to pick.
- Gare 4y agoThe first logo was Newton with an apple over his head. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Apple_first_logo.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Apple_fi... And the bite was supposedly put in to identify the simplified logo as an apple, people thought it was a cherry.
- formerkrogemp 4y agoOthers have pointed this our before. It's strange how few people notice or know however.
- fritztastic 4y agoAccording to Western European culture, sure. Apparently people started thinking of it as an apple because of a choice in translation. Realistically, scholars believe the forbidden fruit referred to is a pomegranate- because geographically it makes more sense. Apples originally come from the region around Kazakhstan- much further East than where the garden of Eden was supposedly located. Some people also think it was a fig. Ultimately the way it was originally written, it's impossible to know for sure but it's unlikely that it was an apple. I don't know about the choice for logo and intent behind the symbol, but I find the geographic origins of plants interesting.
- skeeter2020 4y agothanks for the interesting background info, and I really like the OP's (devilish in it's own sense) interpretation. My understanding is that the choice of an apple was nothing more than the prevalence of orchards in the area when they started. Of course if Jobs WAS the devil, the first requirement would be plausible deniability...
- nemo44x 4y agoIn terms of intent, the designer has spoken about this. One story is the forbidden fruit. Another is that Alan Turing killed himself by taking a bite from a cyanide laced apple. The original rainbow logo showing support for gay people. But he says none of these are true. The logo was an apple because that’s the company name and a bite was taken out of it to make it clear it’s not a cherry. The rainbow colors were because they shipped color graphics with the Apple ][ which was rare for the time. They also proposed a logo without a bite taken out and solid color and metallic versions of the logo that were used in certain marketing. https://creativebits.org/interview/interview_rob_janoff_designer_apple_logo/ https://creativebits.org/interview/interview_rob_janoff_desi... But then if Steve was the devil then this is good cover.
- isleyaardvark 4y agoSomewhat ironic that Jobs limited his kids' screen times.
- germinalphrase 4y agoApples are neither “a” forbidden fruit nor “the” Biblical forbidden fruit (it’s unnamed). Jobs was a self proclaimed fruitarian - so choosing a fruit seems straightforward.
- 29083011397778 4y agoChoosing "Apple" was because he wanted to be ahead of his former employer in the phone book [0]. [0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/12/apples-original-brand-strategy-get-ahead-atari-phonebook/333742/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/12/apple...