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To: Beowulf9; dayglored
I really dislike any stealing of artistic ideas. Just not right. Money doesn’t fix everything. Lots of kids today do not know that Apple was their very original idea. So, once in a while I like to expose that.

The name and logo of Apple Computer was NOT stolen from the Beatles, Beowulf.

Although both Jobs and Wozniak were Beatles fans, the inspiration of the Beatles could not have been further from their minds. Jobs stated he got the idea for the name while wandering in an Apple farm while he was on his Fruitarian diet. In addition, no one would mistake a computer for a record, or assume a record company was endorsing an obscure computer being made by two guys in a garage (if that is where it was made, which, even though Wozniak has befuddled that story, it was).

Have you ever seen the original Apple Logo? Obviously not. If you had, you would not be spouting nonsense about Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne stealing a logo and name from the Beatles when they founded Apple Computer Company. . . which they could not have stolen anyway because a computer company's trade mark cannot infringe a record company's trade mark. They are in completely different industries.

Here is that original Apple Computer Co. Logo which looks absolutely nothing like Apple Corps Logo. . . but does give some idea of what they were thinking:


The words around the border of the picture of Isaac Newton sitting
under his APPLE TREE before it bops him on the head, say
"A Mind Forever Voyaging Through Strange Seas of Thought"

As you can see, there is NOTHING Beatle like about that Logo which was designed and drawn by Ronald Wayne, one of the three original partners in Apple, who should KNOW what the inspiration was. Nor is there anything at all Beatle like in the Company Motto.

I once had a framed letterhead from Apple with that Logo on it. . . a very rare piece but someone stole it in a pilfering of my house. Frankly, it was not a good design for a letterhead. It took up far too much room on the paper, leaving little room for the content, LOL! I have a feeling Steve Jobs was outvoted on the design by Ron and Woz. It is just not anything like his design esthetic.

When Ron Wayne was replaced by people with money who were going to bankroll the building of the Apple II, the NEW partners fairly quickly decided the original Logo was too complicated and hired a commercial artist Rob Janoff to design a new logo who created one for them. . . the stylized Rainbow Apple based on the name of the company, again, NOT based on a record company in Great Britain.

incidentally, in the United States, all the Beatles recordings were released under Capitol Records, not Apple Records, who occasionally used an Apple picture on the records. Few Beatles fans ever saw an Apple Corps record. . . or heard of it. . . nor was it a recorded TradeMark in the US. Apple Corps was dissolved in 1975, a year before Apple Computer Company was formed.

I don't expect you to give up your years of misdirected hate based on mis-information. Most people who believe this stuff will keep on believing it despite the facts that rebut their erroneous beliefs because they've become a matter of faith for them. . . but these are the facts. However, you may not be so quick to post your mis-information when you get the urge to spread it again. You see I intensely dislike seeing myths being repeated being spouted as the truth. . . and i will expose that every time I see it.

18 posted on 12/09/2014 8:22:02 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Swordmaker; Beowulf9
Hi Swordmaker,

Actually that original Apple Computer logo always reminded me stylistically of the Dr. Dobbs' Journal cover/logo artwork. :)

Honestly, I'm not all that upset that the name "Apple" was re-used by Jobs & Co. Icons and mascots and images provide inspiration and get borrowed, re-used, and at times outright stolen all the time. Apples are everywhere, using an apple for a logo or a name is no big deal, IMO, and I'm surprised more companies haven't done so.

My own complaint was about the way Apple Computer handled their transition from being a computer company to being (in part) a media company, which IMO was in conflict with the the original agreement with Apple Corps to not get involved with that.

I think Jobs, being the brilliant strategist and fearless entrepreneur, just decided to plunge ahead into whatever business he thought best to plunge into, and let the lawyers duke it out on his behalf. I don't believe for an instant that he held any ill will or untoward designs on Apple Corps; I think rather that he simply didn't care, and figured it would work out somehow since he knew what was right for his company and was going to do it. Which is essentially what happened.

So I agree in principle with Beowulf on theft of artistic intellectual property; I don't think Jobs did so, but even if he did I'm not that concerned with the original similarity. I'm more disturbed by how it played out over the years. But since it eventually worked out to everyone's satisfaction (with a hat-tip to Beowulf's comment that money doesn't fix everything), I don't care to spend any more time on it this evening.

Best of the evening to you and all...

20 posted on 12/09/2014 8:44:58 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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