Re: Apple Logo Tattoo

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

Sean Fahey (a2fan@hotmail.com) writes:
> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> 
>> I'd never considered the gay association, thinking that it was done
>> as a cost reduction more than anything else (think unbleached boxes).
>> But my daughter pointed out that the rainbow logo might turn off a
>> segment of their prospective market.
> 
> 
> The rainbow logo doesn't seem to have bothered long time Mac user Rush 
> Limbaugh much, though he doesn't care for Apple's left leaning board (Al 
> Gore, etc.)

Apple has always been an odd mix.  Because there seems to be a percentage
of the population who buy Macs (and I say Macs because I'm less certain
this applied in the days of the Apple II) because it's different and
invokes a certain hipness, which in some ways is embodied in those
rainbow Apple stickers that came with the Macs (I've never seen an
Apple II coming out of the box, so I don't know if they came with those;
I got an old Powerbook last year, and the stickers were slid into the
manual).  In the early eighties, I even saw Apple earrings (they
were in a store that sold real Apple II's and they were rainbow and
had the bite missing), which I wish I had bought at the time.

ANd my first reaction is that the people buying Ipods wouldn't care.
They too are buying into the hip factor, and so on...

But then, it has gotten to the point where "older" people are buying
MP3 players, and perhaps it matters to them (though, one has to
get pretty old at this point to have not been young when the Apple
II came along).

  Michael