When it is not busy patenting ways to further restrict hardware usage in its products, Apple also keeps an eye on those whose company logos are a tad too similar to its own. And it’s not surprising, with Woolworths Supermarkets being only one of many companies sued by Apple over such claims. As the story goes,... |
5 October 2009
06:22 GMT |
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Care to know where the company behind the Mac OS “grows” the apples for its retail store logos? A recent ifoAppleStore piece sheds light on the topic, revealing that Apple has them retail logos made over at The Thomas Swan Sign Co., Inc., a company that's been in business for almost a century and a h... |
6 May 2009
06:16 GMT |
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Apple's logo has been spotted on cardboard boxes carrying fruit distributed by Italian fruit seller Vanzetti. The logo is similar to the extent that it has the same single leaf pointing left on top of an already bitten apple.Leaving aside a few chromatic discrepancies (I find that it looks even better than the o... |
10 March 2009
11:58 GMT |
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A Japanese engineer has crafted an MP3 player (bearing an Apple logo) shaped like a cube. The player isn't strange because it's a cube, but because it has no mechanical controls whatsoever.The device could very well sit on a shelf next to Apple's iPods thanks to a sleek design and ingenious functionali... |
29 January 2009
09:49 GMT |
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Sure, Apple goes out of its way to protect the environment, but not so much to support education – or so we could infer from it suing the Victoria School of Business and Technology in Canada for using a logo shaped like an apple.The Victoria School of Business and Technology started using a blue and green apple... |
7 October 2008
08:48 GMT |
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To move away from MacBook rumors a bit, how about we lose our minds over this gorgeously re-decorated MacBook Pro, owned by a Mac-head in Berlin. The picture was taken by flickr user Rodrigo Galindez, who happened to be sitting in a coffee shop when, all of the sudden, he spotted this superb Mac.Cult of Mac points ou... |
2 October 2008
08:07 GMT |
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As the years go by, it's good to see that Apple's products add cool new features, more storage capacity, thinner designs, and breathtaking user interfaces. Then again, it's always good to remember where it all started, like, for instance, who bit the apple used by the company to identify itself –... |
15 September 2008
03:43 GMT |
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New York is facing a lawsuit from Apple Inc.'s CEO, Steve Jobs, who claims copyright infringement upon the company's logo. NY City's environmental awareness campaign, GreeNYC, features a similar logo to Apple Inc's - an apple, of course. It seems the leaf on top of the GreeNYC logo was noticed by ... |
7 April 2008
05:15 GMT |
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Here's a good one. No really, pay attention to this: guys over at Duke University and the University of Waterloo conduct this study, right? What they find is that merely thinking about Apple makes a person more creative. Subjects who were shown the IBM logo for a fraction of a second were rendered stupid. Check ... |
26 March 2008
07:12 GMT |
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