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There's more info here, including an image of the pre 2011 logo: https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/06/19/apple-wants-to-control-every-image-of-an-apple-says

There's more info here, including an image of the pre 2011 logo: https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/06/19/apple-wants-to-control-every-image-of-an-apple-says-swiss-fruit-firm https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/06/19/apple-wants-to-co...

raldi 3y ago
Right? All the comments here are mocking Apple for trying to own all depictions of a fruit, or make it seem like the other company had been happily using the logo for a century, but no, Apple is just trying to say they can’t use the logo they switched to in 2011 which was clearly based on the Apple logo.
- paxys 3y ago
  > clearly based on the Apple logo Uh, the design is clearly based on an apple, which they sell
  - raldi 3y ago
    Do you believe it could ever be possible for a company that sells apples to design a logo based on the Apple logo?
    - paxys 3y ago
      Do you believe that regardless of the existence of Apple a company that sells apples could want to use a generic picture of an apple as their logo?
      - raldi 3y ago
        Yes. Now would you be willing to answer my question? I'm trying to figure out whether we disagree over a matter of where precisely to draw a line, or if the very idea of the line is antithetical.
        paxys 3y ago
        So yes, the difference is that you think that the fruit company logo was copied from Apple whereas I don't.
- EnergyAmy 3y ago
  "clearly based on" is doing a whole lot of work in your comment. I would never confuse the two.
  - raldi 3y ago
    I said nothing about confusion. I said that in 2011, when they changed their old logo: https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/54990-111552-001-previous-logo-xl.jpg https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/54990-111552-001-pr... to this new one: https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/54990-111553-000-lead-Logos-xl.jpg https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/54990-111553-000-le... it seems to me that they were clearly using the Apple logo as their inspiration.
    - EnergyAmy 3y ago
      I think it's pretty clear that they were using... apples as their inspiration for the new logo. That thing that they sell.

raldi 3y ago

Right? All the comments here are mocking Apple for trying to own all depictions of a fruit, or make it seem like the other company had been happily using the logo for a century, but no, Apple is just trying to say they can’t use the logo they switched to in 2011 which was clearly based on the Apple logo.

paxys 3y ago
> clearly based on the Apple logo Uh, the design is clearly based on an apple, which they sell
- raldi 3y ago
  Do you believe it could ever be possible for a company that sells apples to design a logo based on the Apple logo?
  - paxys 3y ago
    Do you believe that regardless of the existence of Apple a company that sells apples could want to use a generic picture of an apple as their logo?
    - raldi 3y ago
      Yes. Now would you be willing to answer my question? I'm trying to figure out whether we disagree over a matter of where precisely to draw a line, or if the very idea of the line is antithetical.
      - paxys 3y ago
        So yes, the difference is that you think that the fruit company logo was copied from Apple whereas I don't.
EnergyAmy 3y ago
"clearly based on" is doing a whole lot of work in your comment. I would never confuse the two.
- raldi 3y ago
  I said nothing about confusion. I said that in 2011, when they changed their old logo: https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/54990-111552-001-previous-logo-xl.jpg https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/54990-111552-001-pr... to this new one: https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/54990-111553-000-lead-Logos-xl.jpg https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/54990-111553-000-le... it seems to me that they were clearly using the Apple logo as their inspiration.
  - EnergyAmy 3y ago
    I think it's pretty clear that they were using... apples as their inspiration for the new logo. That thing that they sell.