.The Apple represents the apple that Eve gave Adam to deceive him and bring about sin to the world. Notice it is also rainbow color, like the gay activist flag. The little "R" doesn't stand for 'registered' but instead revolution. Think about it.
Do I really need a /sarc tag or are people that gullible?
Yes.
And yes.
You’re lucky that is not a NCCA/University licenced logo, or you would be in big trouble :)
Sadly, real life is rarely so exciting. The inital purpose of the bite was to give some scale so it wouldn’t be confused with a cherry.
The clear logo was adopted in 2000, quite possibly because the rainbow one was seen as too ‘70s. It likely also symbolized the fact that they’ve shifted their focus to being more of a multimedia than a computer company (like changing their name from Apple Computer to Apple Inc.)