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Apple's Rainbow Logo May Return to Some New Products as Early as This Year
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Steve Jobs did not want the Macintosh to have any internal expansion.
Reported the Macintosh II, which was the first expandable Mac, was developed somewhat in secret until Steve Jobs was forced out of the company. The Macintosh Plus, which used the same form factor as the original Macintosh, did at least have RAM slots, although it wasn't really meant to be user upgradable(didn't stop people from doing it, nor did it stop people from soldering extra RAM onto the 128Ks and 512Ks-my 512Ke has 1mb of RAM in the form of extra modules "piggybacked" on).
As to the Apple rainbow-I'm surrounded by stuff daily that has it, and it has its place on 90s and earlier Macs. I even have a small stash of rainbow Apple stickers that I could put on one of my newer computers if I wanted. It went away for good reason when Apple went to the bulbous colorful plastic(those computers tended to have a solid color matching Apple), and to my eye would look out of place on any Apple design of the last 20 years.
I took would appreciate it possibly appropriate applied to one product, but please don't make it a routine thing. Perhaps it would be fitting in 2024 for a product on the 40th anniversary of the Macintosh(just please don't make it a $10K computer with components from a bottom of the line desktop) but that's still a good ways off.
Now bring back skeuomorphism and I'll maybe care what Apple is doing again.
I’d say by your statement, you don’t understand what skeuomorphism relates/means to Apple in general (But you’re not the only one who uses this term out of context). If you ‘don’t care what Apple is doing now’, then you certainly _won’t_ be caring what they’re doing in the future, because it doesn’t necessarily meet the standards of how this company was all those years ago.
I have this rainbow sticker on my 2015 MacBook Pro with glowing logo. Love it!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B01GBOEQ6M/ref=nosim/appleink/
And I don't plan on replacing this laptop until Apple releases a truly better one
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There’s the full version on YouTube. There’s also this: https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1p5RICuEWlLhbzM8Lczsg7x-Zu88W46Uv?usp=drive_open
Go to 1983 and click the thumbnail of Steve smiling - that song plays before Jobs talks. They played that song at shareholder meetings, I believe
I don’t really see them changing the name of iMac, iPhone, iPad or iPod.
I don’t think they’re pushing hard to kill the “i” branding at all.
I love the rainbow logo, hopefully nobody will stop it from coming, how dare they if that happens (who cares?).
I had always the dream of getting a macbook with glowing logo when I was little. When I had the chance of getting one they pulled it off now I have one without the glow... So I would be on the moon if by any chance they put glowing logo back to MacBooks.
And for the rainbow logo... I mean it looks so good on the black one especially but they should do some option. Not everyone is going for it because current metallic ones are really cool too. I hope this happens as a surprise for this years iPhones.
And for the rainbow logo... I mean it looks so good on the black one especially but they should do some option. Not everyone is going for it because current metallic ones are really cool too. I hope this happens as a surprise for this years iPhones.
OLED logo. Then you can have the rainbow or anything else you want.
That would be more useful than the touchbar, IMO.
Yes, for new services and products...but not existing ones.
l don't see them calling their renaming their stuff, to Pad, Cloud, Tunes or Phone.
Interesting slip: if you say you don't want LGTB Apple products, people will tell you that it's not the LGTB rainbow, but the old logo. However... in their minds they agree it is a reference to belonging to the LGTB lobby, as this quote shows.
There’s no slip. People associate rainbows with civil rights these days. You support civil rights, right? Imagine if rainbows were just one color, they wouldn’t be as beautiful would they? Diversity is natural, diversity is beautiful. It’s to be celebrated, and we celebrate it.
Don’t give in to the dark side, friend.