Meaning of the bite on Apple logo?

The bite in the apple symbolizes the apple from the Garden Of Eden. When Eve, took a bite out of the apple, she gained knowledge of good and evil. The Apple logo says, that you can use all their produces for good or bad. Personally, I think they couldn't have done it better. We shouldn't blame the problems of radiation and social issues on technology but on the holders of these devices. It is in you hands whether you chose to do good or bad with it.

If beauty is indeed truth, as John Keats claimed, then this story ought to be true: the logo on the back of your iPhone or Mac is a tribute to Alan Turing, the man who laid the foundations for the modern-day computer, pioneered research into artificial intelligence and unlocked German wartime codes.

His death, a decade after the end of the war, provides the link with Apple. Unrecognized for his work, facing jail for gross indecency and humiliated by estrogen injections intended to 'cure' his homosexuality, he bit into an apple he had laced with cyanide. He died in obscurity on June 7, 1954, 10 years and a day after the Normandy landings, which made copious use of intelligence gleaned by his methods.

I cut this from a CNN site I've known of this story for some time.

Grant

the_guy_who_knows_stuff wrote:

I believe that it is because when Alan Turing died, there was a half eaten apple on the side of his bed...

So we should be thankful that Turing's apple was only half eaten, otherwise the Apple logo would be:

Zombies.

It represents Steve taking a bite out of your brain.

Here's one to boggle your brain. The first idea for a computer came from the British mathmetician, Alan Turing, who was also a cryptographer and broke the German Enigma codes. He died by dipping an apple in cyanide and taking a bite. The apple with the bite was found by his bedside.

I believe that it is because when Alan Turing died, there was a half eaten apple on the side of his bed,

and the apple was covered in poison.

I always thought it would be nice to think that the bite out the apple represents the bite Alan Turing took out of the poison laced apple he ate and died from,this could be because he is known as the founder of the computer and that before they were known as computers scientists used the name "Turing machine"

know this stuff = the guy who did the design said (paraphrased, but close) " to tell the difference from a cherry " = quoted by romad in 3rd(?) reply. - ÇÇÇ

The 'rumors' surrounding Turing's death scene fit nicely into that legend... however, the designer told all in an interview - cited a couple places earlier here - first, as I posted just a few posts before yours

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in response to the_guy_who_knows_stuff

know this stuff = the guy who did the design said (paraphrased, but close) " to tell the difference from a cherry " = quoted by romad in 3rd(?) reply. - ÇÇÇ

click romad's name above for the details

What about taking a "byte" out of the apple? Has this not even been discussed? But I guess the real reason is it's the differentiation between an apple and the cherry. Kind of a let-down.

Scott Chu wrote:
But according to the interview with Apple 2nd logo designer( http://creativebits.org/interview/interviewrob_janoff_designer_applelogo), it's nothing to do with what dicussed in the previous topic thread. However, Janoff still doesn't say the original idea. So, does anyone every heard from somewhere or somebody that Janoff ever talked about his original idea of that "bite"?

Yes and no. I'm fighting with my new Intel iMac running Mac OS 10.7.5 If I don't keep restarting it, it becomes slower than my iMac G5 AL with 10.5.8; I made the mistake of connecting once to the G5 via my network and now it keeps wanting to re-connect every few minutes even though the G5 isn't on the network. I've asked for help here on AD, but so far there has been resounding silence. Ah, the things we have to do to use an iPhone 5!