Apple Park Decorated With Rainbow Colors in Celebration of Steve Jobs and Formal Opening of Campus

[citysnaps]

Wait, people still think calling Tim Cook Tim Crook is clever or funny?

I think that comes from people still in junior high school.

 

[Spacetime Anomaly]

The internet: Where grown men get upset about rainbows.

 

[Weaselboy]

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[mikethemartian]

Oldest, not most famous.

I think the oldest one had Sir Isaac Newton on it.

 

[the johnmc]

Sorry for being vague...I understand all of that. I just think Tim Cook has devalued the rainbow logo as an "Apple" thing. The watch faces don't herald back to the golden era do they?

Nope. Still don't get what you're trying to say. Could you please enlighten us?

 

[BillyBobBongo]

I like the stairs and the (let’s call it a) rainbow carpet, but that stage...it looks like a 4 year old's birthday party.

I do like the use of the old rainbow logo. But this really is a case of less is more.

 

[BaltimoreMediaBlog]

Need more cowbell!

 

[BruceEBonus]

Apple Big Brother. He say “Worship the rainbow. Buy, buy, buy - and don’t ask why!”

 

[eatrains]

Talk about a mixed signal. Here we have a memory of what made Apple unique and great yet it seems lately everything Apple does has been outside of thinking different. Failed to launch products, canceled airport lineup, limited hardware releases and refreshes, and an over abundance of social activism. The era of the multicolored apple logo is long gone as a focused tech firm pairing hardware and software together brilliantly seems to value their image over their products.

Sorry for the cynicism, I'm just taken aback by this move from Apple to praise a period that's long gone.

They should have thought differently by... competing in the small, crowded, and mature wireless router market?

BRING BACK THE LASERWRITER AND QUICKTAKE, TIM

 

[justperry]

Apple's design chief Jony Ive reflected on the rainbow's significance in a recent interview:

There is the resonance with the rainbow logo that's been part of our identity for many years. The rainbow is also a positive and joyful expression of some of our inclusion values and I think that one of the primary reasons the idea resonated so immediately and so profoundly with us was the form -- the connection from an aesthetic design point of view. A semi-circle relates so beautifully and naturally to the form of the ring.

I "love/hate that man", awesome designs but should shut his mouth, drivel, makes me wanna puke.

 

[JosephAW]

Can't wait for the space gray pavilion.

 

[lunarworks]

Damn, those colours bring me back. All those years in school with that little Apple badge on the front of Apple IIs and Macs.

You can really tell the age of some of the posters here by all this.

 

[jonblatho]

I never liked rainbows (other than the real ones), and I never will, despite loving the individual colors.

When I first discovered Apple, thankfully Steve Jobs had already retired that UGLY logo.

Thus I find all of this hideous.

Damnit, Tim. Dammit, Steve. I blame YOU for putting him in charge.

DAMMIT.

Imagine being as upset as this guy over how Apple decorates its campus. Temporarily.

 

[cube]

I thought it was with lights.

 

[sfobear]

BRING BACK THE LASERWRITER AND QUICKTAKE, TIM

And iPod socks! The old ones don't fit my iPhone X!

 

[tongxinshe]

I remember the days of the rainbow Apple logo.
Days on which Steve Jobs was in charge.

You remembered it wrong. /s
Well, I meant it, changing company logo from the rainbow one to the white one was one of first changes Steve Jobs made after he got back the control of the company on 1998.

 

[WaxedJacket]

How is the classic Apple logo a mixed signal?

I think I was pretty clear as to why I believe this is a mixed signal from Apple. Let's praise and remember the years Apple was ushering in a different approach to personal computing while we do the opposite in our day to day business practice.

 

[nouveau_redneck]

Perhaps Apple should do a year of special edition phones with rainbow logo embedded on the back. One year only. That should ignite some sales and make for some cool devices.

 

[steve217]

Remember the true meaning of the rainbow: peace with God.
Genesis 9:13-16

 

[Mac 128]

I remember the days of the rainbow Apple logo.
Days on which Steve Jobs was in charge.

To be fair, it was also the days when John Sculley, Michael Spindler and Gil Amelio was in charge -- and that was a lot longer span than Steve was in charge with that logo. And it was Steve who promptly changed it when he returned.

 

[freedomlinux]

wireless router market

Actually, I do quite miss the Time Capsule line. Sure there are alternatives, but it's great to see products that make it extremely simple for users to keep good backups.

 

[mikethemartian]

It’s a celebration of the resistor color code.

 

[sideshowuniqueuser]

Moderator Note:

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Sort of ironic to remove all PRSI comments when Tim Cook is clearly making a PRSI statement with all this rainbow stuff.

 

[Brien]

I like it? Minority opinion apparently.

 

[Doctor Q]

Sort of ironic to remove all PRSI comments when Tim Cook is clearly making a PRSI statement with all this rainbow stuff.

We understand your point. Under the Forum Rules, qualified forum members are welcome to start PRSI threads about the political implications of a news story like this, or to post about it in existing PRSI threads. The rule is designed to keep trolls and hit-and-run new members from derailing news thread discussions.