The meaning of “Apple” just occurred to me…

[tweaknmod]

I think I just realized what the Apple logo and slogan mean…

The apple is from the tree of knowledge that Adam and Eve are said to have taken a bite from in the Garden of Eden, thereby gaining self-awareness.

Apple’s slogan is “Think different”.

The logo is an apple with a bite out of it. Once you get a taste of knowledge you see the world in a new way; you think differently.

Side idea I just thought of while editing this: Jobs would then be the Devil, tempting you with the apple! 🤣

Go on, take a bite…



That’ll be $1,893.72, sir.

 

[Snørrbjørg]

Apples first logo. Isaac Newton sitting under the apple that later fell on his head, as the old story told us.

Newton's apple: The real story

We've all heard the story. A young Isaac Newton is sitting beneath an apple tree contemplating the mysterious universe. Suddenly - boink! -an apple hits him on the head. "Aha!" he shouts, or perhaps, "Eureka!" In a flash he understands that the very same force that brought the apple crashing...

www.newscientist.com

 

[maflynn]

The name Apple was picked as that is before the Atari alphabetically, so in the phone book it would come before Atari

Steve Jobs had worked at Atari and wanted to best them out.