iPhone Fact Of The Day – Logo edition

Apple’s first logo was designed by a guy named Ron Wayne, and depicts Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree.

It was almost immediately replaced by Rob Janoff’s ‘Rainbow Apple. The logo was apparently designed with a bite taken out of it so that it wouldn’t be confused with a cherry, and the colored stripes were to make the logo more accessible and to represent the fact that the Apple II computer could generate graphics in color.

There is a myth that the Apple logo with a bite taken out of it is a reference to the ‘father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence’  Alan Turing, and what is thought to be  his method of suicide- eating an apple with a lethal dose of cyanide in it. This myth has lingered, although both Janoff and Apple deny any homage to Turing in the design of the logo.

On August 27, 1999 Apple officially dropped the rainbow scheme and began to use monochromatic themes. An Aqua-themed version of the monochrome logo was used from 1999 to 2003, and a Glass-themed version was used from 2007 to 2013. With the release of iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks in fall of 2013, the logo now appears flat and white with no glossy effects.

So there you have it! Bet you didn’t know you were gonna learn THAT today, huh!

Everything in this Radio Shack ad from the 90’s can be found in your iPhone!

Ever feel like you’re super lucky to live in the world right now? With all the amazing advances in technology we should all be grateful!

Check out this Ad from 90’s Radio Shack- every function in every item for sale can now be found in your iPhone!

Image courtesy of Imgur.com

Apple Fact Of The Day

Look closely next time you see an Apple Ad or press shot, and  you’ll find that the time is always set to 9:41A.M. or 9:42 A.M.

Why?

Because all Apple events start at 9 a.m.

“We design the keynotes so that the big reveal of the product happens around 40 minutes into the presentation,” former Apple executive Scott Forstall has said. “When the big image of the product appears on screen, we want the time shown to be close to the actual time on the audience’s watches. But we know we won’t hit 40 minutes exactly.”

Forstall’s exacting his team chose the 42-minute mark for the launch of the first iPhone in 2007. “It turned out we were pretty accurate with that estimate, so for the iPad we made it 41 minutes,” he said.

Plus, 42 is the answer to the meaning of life, so there’s that going for them too.

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