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New-look Apple
Apple's Apple has apparently undergone major cosmetic surgery.
The green apple - the subject of a lawsuit with the Beatles's Apple Corp - will get silvery chrome finish, says Wired here.
"The effect is a lot like the chrome female robots of Hajime Sorayama," says Wired. "At least, that's the best guess of Apple watchers, who spotted the new logo in the latest test version of Apple's OS X operating system."
The new Apple logo appears throughout the latest build of the operating system, code-named Panther, which is expected to be released to the public in the next few weeks, Wired says, continuing, "The logo first appears on the boot-up splash screen, then the login dialog box. It is also present in the About this Mac dialog box, replacing the big blue X used currently."
But, "Not everyone is happy with the move toward brushed metal, which Apple is previewing on its Panther webpage."
A petition to Apple to cut the new look had attracted more than 200 signatories by Friday morning.
It reads, "Please do not add the ugly look of brushed metal to the Finder, OR, if you must do so, please give us an easy way to turn off this monstrosity."
User Comments
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tasadar24
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Date: September 29, 2003 @ 5:46 PM
Didn't they do this a while ago?
And also, why does it matter? Just because of the trouble witht he Beatles? |
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tasadar24
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Date: September 29, 2003 @ 5:46 PM
first post!(like it matters) |
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purfus
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Date: September 29, 2003 @ 7:27 PM
WEEE a new Mac. Sweatt I can make another abstract art sculpture of crushed peaces of a computer :) |
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sharefile
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Date: September 29, 2003 @ 7:41 PM
if i were apple i would make it so you can change the colors of the apple and whatever else they are in hot water over but make the brushed metal default.
i saw it and it looked kinda nice but i also do alot in metal shops so i kinda have a thing for metalic colors |
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nirvanafanxp
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Date: September 29, 2003 @ 8:18 PM
hooray....another excuse to get apple into the media..
I,however congratulate The Beatles for keeping their green apple "original".
(i'm a big fan of them..and Microsoft)
;) |
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gdZiemann
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Date: September 29, 2003 @ 8:54 PM
The Green Apple???
When did Apple's rainbow-colored apple turn green?
I thought the lawsuit was about Apple Computer being in the business of selling music?!?
But only if the apple is green??????
What a sad waste of time... |
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tasadar24
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Date: September 29, 2003 @ 8:58 PM
The only good thing that comes out of Apple is Ipod... |
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RIAAposterchild
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Date: September 29, 2003 @ 9:51 PM
Their new sales slogan should be:
'An apple a day keeps Bill Gates at bay' |
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paulruss
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Date: September 29, 2003 @ 10:07 PM
Apple Computer Corp never had a green apple, well, there was a green apple on the green imac a few years back, but there were also red, orange, purple and blue, too. apple's logo is white or black over a contrasting background, silver or grey depending on the product.
The rainbow logo changed in 1998.
tasadar, every living graphic designer, author, publisher, musician and film and television editor would completely disagree with you. Everything you read is done on a mac, every movie and tv show you see is edited on a mac, almost every song you hear is mixed on a mac. No one who is serious about design, editing or music would use anything else.
Everything else that can be done on a pc can be done just as well on mac, same software, same experience, full compatibility. The only thing wintel machines are good for are games and high end 3d modelling and animation (although pixar uses macs). |
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paulruss
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Date: September 29, 2003 @ 10:17 PM
Apple Computer Corp never had a green apple, well, there was a green apple on the green imac a few years back, but there were also red, orange, purple and blue, too. apple's logo is white or black over a contrasting background, silver or grey depending on the product.
The rainbow logo changed in 1998.
tasadar, every living graphic designer, author, publisher, musician and film and television editor would completely disagree with you. Everything you read is done on a mac, every movie and tv show you see is edited on a mac, almost every song you hear is mixed on a mac. No one who is serious about design, editing or music would use anything else.
Everything else that can be done on a pc can be done just as well on mac, same software, same experience, full compatibility. The only thing wintel machines are good for are games and high end 3d modelling and animation (although pixar uses macs). |
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RIAAposterchild
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Date: September 29, 2003 @ 10:48 PM
paulruss wrote:
tasadar, every living graphic designer, author, publisher, musician and film and television editor would completely disagree with you. Everything you read is done on a mac, every movie and tv show you see is edited on a mac, almost every song you hear is mixed on a mac. No one who is serious about design, editing or music would use anything else.
Like Bob Dylan once wrote "The times they are A changin" or more recently Kelly Bell says: "Ain't like it used to be"
Yeah years ago for macs that may have been true but I know people that do heavy duty video and professional graphic editting and they all use pcs because apple is just too expensive. With the new 64bit intel & amd processors just around the corner more people will be abandoning ship...
One friend who was one of biggest holdouts is now an intel dealer... ;-) |
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paulruss
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Date: September 29, 2003 @ 11:10 PM
That may apply to smaller production houses, but all the big post houses still use macs, I got some friends in the industry, too.
Optimus and PostEffects in Chicago are the two largest post houses there and are strictly mac. Ogilvy and Mather, Leo Burnett, J Walter Thomson, three advertising company giants, all mac.
Graphic design is impossible on a pc, due to total lack of color correction from aplication to application, most service bureaus that handle graphic design jobs won't even accept pc files.
For every one that jumps ship, a new person will switch, most people who jump ship jump back.
The only reason why people jump is because of cost, they jump back because of cost, too.
The industry I'm in doesn't use macs for the kind of work I do, I've been on windows for 8 years now, it does the job, but I miss the elegance and efficiency of working on a mac. I long for the day when I can go back. |
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burner97119
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Date: September 29, 2003 @ 11:43 PM
the sales figures speak for themselves |
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RIAAposterchild
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Date: September 29, 2003 @ 11:52 PM
paulruss wrote:
"That may apply to smaller production houses, but all the big post houses still use macs, I got some friends in the industry, too."
Just like the holdouts for betacam when dv rocks, especially hidef...
You don't have to import just shoot and edit with your portable hard drive... |
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spot19
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Date: September 30, 2003 @ 12:18 AM
I am a professional video editor. I use the industry standard for video editing which is AVID. I have edited on both Mac and PC. The PC is more reliable and had a better interface to use editing software. This post is in regards to paulruss...just because you are a Mac fanatic...does not make it better. Everybody at my company hates Mac and we have currently contracted with AVID for over 1 million dollars for new computers and the latest software...It is on the PC...not MAC...I hope you enjoy this video I have included.
http://www.flogged.net/media/video/whymacssuck.wmv |
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RIAAposterchild
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Date: September 30, 2003 @ 12:35 AM
spot19 dude *fomcrotflmfao!!!
*for the newbies: fell off my chair rolled on the floor laughing my f'ing ass off! |
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gdZiemann
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Date: September 30, 2003 @ 1:49 AM
Staying on topic...
If Apple never used a green apple, why was /is it the "subject of a lawsuit with the Beatles' Apple Corp"? |
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Bogatabeav
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Date: September 30, 2003 @ 9:18 AM
I can't say that I'm too impressed with a COMPUTER company, who's biggest innovation, from year to year, is the latest color or a consumer that is sold by it. I use my computer for work and play. The PC is the perfect amalgam of both. Ever found a game on Mac that was less than a year old?
To RIAAposterchild: Windows isn't the only OS for the PC. You just have to spend a little time to actually learn a little about your computer (besides point and click) to use Linux.
I'm not sure how this post didn't get weeded out, maybe the Apple Promo should be on another site. This website is devoted to the injustices commited by the RIAA in the guise of creative ownership, not how "cool" the new Mac is going to look.
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gdZiemann
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Date: September 30, 2003 @ 2:54 PM
It wouldn't be an Apple promo if anyone would be willing to discuss the issue of the litigation.
As in -- what exactly did the Beatles sue Apple for? |
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RIAAposterchild
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Date: September 30, 2003 @ 6:16 PM
Bogatabeav wrote:
To RIAAposterchild: Windows isn't the only OS for the PC. You just have to spend a little time to actually learn a little about your computer (besides point and click) to use Linux.
I come from a time before linux when the *nuxes were legion. HP, Sun, IBM, SCO, etc... Moved quite well from chui to gui thank you. Hated all the obscure idiosyncrasies that were peculiar to a particular flavor of unix. And I've comtemplated many times putting Linux on one of my boxes but then I have a short attention span and end up watching Comedy Central. ;-)
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RIAAposterchild
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Date: September 30, 2003 @ 6:27 PM
gdZiemann wrote:
As in -- what exactly did the Beatles sue Apple for?
I think it was the green apple itunes logo that made them see red...
As in green good, red bad moneywise...
Here's a link here:
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5075721.html |
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