Re: Apple Logo Tattoo

[Sean Fahey <a2fan@hotmail.com>]

William Heckel wrote:

> With the gay pride movement using the "Rainbow", does the rainbow Apple logo 
> have to many "Gay" overtones
> to have as a tattoo ?

More info from the Wikipedia

Apple�s first logo, designed by Jobs and Wayne, depicts Sir Isaac Newton 
sitting under an apple tree. Almost immediately, though, this was 
replaced by Rob Janoff�s �rainbow Apple,� the now-familiar 
rainbow-colored silhouette of an apple with a bite taken out of it. This 
was one of several designs Janoff presented to Jobs in 1976.[19]

In her book Zeroes and Ones, author Sadie Plant speculates that the 
rainbow logo was an homage to Alan Turing, the father of modern 
computing, who suffered years of persecution for his homosexuality 
before committing suicide with a cyanide-laced apple. This account, 
while appealing for its entertainment value as an urban legend, is 
factually improbable; the Apple logo was designed two years before 
Gilbert Baker's rainbow pride flag, and did not in any case follow the 
same color pattern.

In 1998, Apple began enforcing the use of a strictly monochrome 
logo�supposedly at the insistence of a newly re-inaugurated Jobs�nearly 
identical in shape to its previous rainbow incarnation. No specific 
color is prescribed; for example, it is grey on the Power Mac G5, Mac 
Mini, and iMac, blue (by default) in Mac OS X, chrome on the 'About this 
Mac' panel and the boot screen in Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4, red on many 
software packages, and white on the iBook, PowerBook G4, MacBook, and 
MacBook Pro. The logo's shape is one of the most recognized brand 
symbols in the world, and is featured quite prominently on all Apple 
products and retail stores, and notably included as stickers in nearly 
all Macintosh and iPod packages through the years.