Well, yes - I'd agree with that. I don't need to tell anyone I'm an avid supporter of Apple products, and always have been. Everything I've ever bought still works and still does the job it was supposed to - often rather more. If it wasn't for apple - my industry would be very different, less accessible and probably without my presence. Homes, jobs, lives, social networks - it's all about Apple. That's not to say that we wouldn't be doing just fine without the ever present little logo - but it has made the world a much better place to live and work.
I've always been fascinated by the venom heaped on Apple and Steve Jobs by his detractors - I've always put it down to resentment. The word that keeps coming into the news broadcasts this morning is 'intuitive' - and that's the key to making things accessible. I had a student in yesterday who went to New York after he graduated in the summer and is now working for an innovative tech company out there - he was able to show us some of the things that they are working on - and it's all about intuiitive, interactive screen relationships. Brilliant stuff - but easy, honest and accessible to all. That's where the genius comes in. There won't be another Steve Jobs.
As testament to the simple beauty and common sense of Apple - there are myriad urban myths devoted to the meaning of the apple logo, and the potential significance of the 'bite' - one popular theory - beloved of nerds the world over, is that the 'bite' is reference to computer genius Alan Turing, who died after taking a bite from an apple poisoned with cyanide. That's actually nonsense - in truth - it's just a simple graphic device that indicates scale. If the bite wasn't there - the apple would look like a cherry at small scale - it just makes sense, nothing more - nothing less.
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