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The Apple Boot That’s Not Even Worth Suing For

This tasteless Apple-branded shoe may not even manage to lift an eyebrow over at the Mac maker’s legal department, though Cupertino is known to have sued for even less resemblance to its brand’s logo.Featuring a partially bitten Apple frame, a leaf, as well as a stalk, the Apple boot is not something emer...

22 December 2011
07:21 GMT

Photographer Pays Awesome Tribute to Jobs

Jonathan Mak Long has photoshopped the Apple logo to replace the bite with Steve Jobs’ face to bring his own tribute to the Apple co-founder. The image depicting Jobs' face appears to be taken from the cover of ‘Inside Steve’s Brain’, a book about the iconic man authored Leander Kahney.Ap...

6 October 2011
03:52 GMT

How It’s Made - Cutting Out the Apple Logo

A patent application signed Apple Inc. reveals a potential method of cutting out the Apple logo in various products, if not the actual method used by the Mac maker. The application (ID number 20110183580), filed January 25, 2010 with the U.S Patent and Trademark office, explains that various techniques have been emp...

28 July 2011
12:01 GMT

Rob Janoff Tells the Story of the Rainbow Apple Logo

Designer Rob Janoff has posted a story on how the “rainbow” Apple logo came into existence in the 1970’s. In September 2008, Softpedia itself issued a “did you know” piece on “who bit Apple’s apple,” noting that while the “rainbow” logo had a more than ...

4 February 2010
09:35 GMT

There’s Room for Only One Apple-Looking Logo on This Planet

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

Did You Know: Apple's Store Logos Are Made by a 132-Year-Old Company

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

Apple Logo Used to Sell Apples

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

Engineer Invents 'iPod cube' with Accelerometer

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

Apple Sues Canadian School over Apple-Shaped Logo

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

Breathtaking MacBook Pro Spotted in Berlin

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

Did You Know: Who Bit Apple's Apple

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

Steve Jobs Sues New York City for Copyright Infringement

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

Flash the Apple Logo in Front of Someone's Eyes and They'll Build You a Space Craft... Out of Bricks

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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