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Leopard's TextEdit Thinks Different
Who would have thought that one of Apple's most memorable ad campaigns and Leopard's most talked about features would collide? That's right, Think Different and Resolution Independence have joined forces to bring us Leopard's all new TextEdit icon. Head on over to NSLog to read the lovely letter that John Appleseed (who is that guy? I'm getting a John Galt vibe from him) penned to Kate. You might recognize the text from those iconic ads of Apple's yesteryear.
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WickDC said 9:03AM on 8-29-2007
Found the full text here:
http://www.virtualteacher.com.au/crazyone.html
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Jason said 9:39AM on 8-29-2007
John Appleseed is most likely "Johnny" Appleseed - an American legend that would represent to some extent what Apple is trying to do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Appleseed
It's great to see such detail in icons now. Wow.
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Al Willis said 10:10AM on 8-29-2007
It's a really nice icon.
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Thomas said 10:58AM on 8-29-2007
Who's Kate?
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Ryan Meyers said 11:30AM on 8-29-2007
Perhaps it is Kate Bell from the iPhone commercials. Watch below.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/ad9/small.html
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Erick said 11:32AM on 8-29-2007
@Jason
I'm shocked that people keep missing the fact that Johnny Appleseed, did what? Planted Apples! John Appleseed is used in commercials, and commercials sell/spread Apples.
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Ryan Meyers said 11:36AM on 8-29-2007
Johnny Appleseed was also placed in Apple's first logo. Pic below:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/Apple_first_logo.png
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Ian Creelman said 11:53AM on 8-29-2007
At 8. My guess is that original logo has Sir Isaac 'Newton' in it with an 'Apple' about to fall on his head.
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Ian Creelman said 11:54AM on 8-29-2007
Oops. I meant 'at 7'. And on my fist post no less. How embarrassing...
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Ryan Meyers said 1:12PM on 8-29-2007
@ 8 & 9 ;)
Oh yeah, your right. I knew it was someone historic. Thanks for the correction.
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VanillaSpice said 1:48AM on 8-31-2007
Beautiful. It really is things like this that make me love Apple. Inc.
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