Flickr Find: A familiar logo

You can call Steve Jobs a visionary if you want, but the Vanzettis are the real visionaries -- who would have ever thought of using a computer company's logo to sell fruit?! Though it's a little bit squished and the colors are different than we've ever seen (a red apple and a green leaf? why didn't they ever use that on the old IIe's?), the old bite-out-of-the-apple logo is definitely very familiar.

We doubt Apple will take any legal action here -- the Mac makers having a problem with a fruit company would be like a record company having a problem with Apple (oh wait). As long as Vanzetti never tries to release an iOrange, they'll probably be fine.

Thanks, Lucky!

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phez

Well, atleast its a change from the Unofficial-Apple-iPhone-App-Blog

March 12 2009 at 12:19 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mr.omari

fruits from italy...apples from cupertino

March 11 2009 at 12:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

israel.mcmullin

I agree with everyone here, this post is ludicrous.

March 11 2009 at 10:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

nthn

What is truely dissapointing is how much complaining there is about a fun little find that very clearly looks like apples logo. I am thankful for these things that I would never find out but are worth a 1 minute read. If you don't like it then just ignore it.

March 11 2009 at 12:46 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jonathan Neil

wow, calm down everyone. it's a funny coincidence, imo. you don't have to click on EVERY story, btw.

March 10 2009 at 8:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

required

omgwtfbbg!!!!! http://www.uaw.org/ just a T away!!!!!! icurumba!!!!!

March 10 2009 at 6:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mi_sat

F*ck*ng waste of blog space. Yes, it's TUAW's blog to do with what it wants, but give me a break.

March 10 2009 at 5:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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mi_sat

I don't see the Apple netbook article as carried in the wall street journal and dow jones newswire. Perhaps it was bumped by this stupid article.

March 10 2009 at 6:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Justin

In Other BREAKING NEWS: I successfully finished a whole bag of Sun Chips.

March 10 2009 at 3:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Peter

The whole thing?!?!?! And it didn't make TUAW headlines?!?!

March 10 2009 at 3:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

brian

Add me in with all the gripers here. I'm not usually one to complain about TUAW editorial choices, but a fruit company with an apple in their logo? Duh. Too obvious to be funny. Just lame.

Next will be a post about the McIntosh apple ("The Macintosh project started in the late 1970s with Jef Raskin, an Apple employee, who envisioned an easy-to-use, low-cost computer for the average consumer. He wanted to name the computer after his favorite type of apple, the McIntosh, but the name had to be changed for legal reasons.") and the amp company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntosh_Labs

March 10 2009 at 1:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dan Fever

Please more app reviews. You have slowed on those and lately content has been pretty blah. I will be deleting my engadget RSS because they have completely bored me to death. Nokia is still in business??

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