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40 years of Apple: more than a Computer
On 1. April 1976, an idea was born. 40 years later, Apple celebrates its birthday. Apple-Nerd Silke Wünsch congratulated and we are immersed in the cultural history of the Apple.
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Fruity Computer
Probably the most famous Apple of the 21st century. Century: Apple Inc. The Logo of the bitten Apple, designed in 1977 by Rob Janoff. The name of the company was the brainchild of co-founder Steve Jobs. He had a fruit diet, it is said in the official biography by Walter Isaacson. On the way back from an Apple orchard, the Name he could think of. Since 1998, the Logo is black.
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Adam & Eva
In the heavenly Paradise of the Apple played an important role. The “root parent of all human beings” from a Christian point of view, a fatal mistake: you disregard God’s commandment to not eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge. Eve plucks an Apple from this tree, takes a bite, and brings Adam to eat the fruit.
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Episode of the Greek mythology
A very delicate task: The young Trojan Prince Paris to decide which of the three Greek goddesses Aphrodite, Athena and Hera is the most Beautiful. Since each goddess wants Paris decides to try to bribe him. Aphrodite offers Paris the love of the most beautiful woman in the world. As a sign of his judgment of Paris, Aphrodite a Golden Apple.
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The thing with the gravity
The English scientist and mathematician Isaac Newton is said to have been hit by a tree falling Apple on the head. The brought him, allegedly, about the power to think, the Apple on the ground and not to the side or upwards. The anecdote is supposed to have inspired Newton to discover the law of gravity.
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A sign of the reign
What the Empire of Austria and the king have kingdoms of England, Denmark, Norway, and Prussia together? Right! It’s the realm of Apple in the Form of a world is a ball with a cross as an Emblem of domination. The Orb, the ancient Romans invented. They had a globe as a sign of their world domination.
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Tree of eternal life
The Apple tree appears in many different cultures again and again in connection with the life. In the Nordic Sage, he is responsible for the eternal life. Similarly, in the Greek mythology. Martin Luther once said: “If I knew that tomorrow would be the day of judgement, I would still plant my Apple tree.”
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The Apple Shot
Friedrich Schiller wrote his Drama “Wilhelm Tell” at the beginning of the 19th century. Century. It’s the story of Swiss national hero, the rebel against the power-hungry oppressors told. A socially critical piece, that is until today. The shot at the Apple, Tell’s son is wearing on the head, was a penalty that was invented by the mighty bailiff for William Tell.
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The Fairest of them all
In the fairy tale “snow white and the seven dwarfs” by the brothers Grimm an evil Queen envied snow white, the beauty of her stepdaughter. In order to be “the Fairest of them all”, she wants snow white killed. The Queen into the poisoned Apple, snow white bites and falls over dead. A pallbearer trips, from snow white spits out the Apple and survived. Lucky!
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The record label of the Beatles
The Beatles founded in 1968, their own record label Apple Records. The Logo, a Granny Smith Apple was first on the legendary “White Album” of the Beatles, the at the 22. November 1968, appeared, shown in the picture. The name equality with the American company Apple Inc. led to a number of processes, which in part led to million in payments to the record company.
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Fruity Computer
Probably the most famous Apple of the 21st century. Century: Apple Inc. The Logo of the bitten Apple, designed in 1977 by Rob Janoff. The name of the company was the brainchild of co-founder Steve Jobs. He had a fruit diet, it is said in the official biography by Walter Isaacson. On the way back from an Apple orchard, the Name he could think of. Since 1998, the Logo is black.
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Adam & Eva
In the heavenly Paradise of the Apple played an important role. The “root parent of all human beings” from a Christian point of view, a fatal mistake: you disregard God’s commandment to not eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge. Eve plucks an Apple from this tree, takes a bite, and brings Adam to eat the fruit.
-
Episode of the Greek mythology
A very delicate task: The young Trojan Prince Paris to decide which of the three Greek goddesses Aphrodite, Athena and Hera is the most Beautiful. Since each goddess wants Paris decides to try to bribe him. Aphrodite offers Paris the love of the most beautiful woman in the world. As a sign of his judgment of Paris, Aphrodite a Golden Apple.
-
The thing with the gravity
The English scientist and mathematician Isaac Newton is said to have been hit by a tree falling Apple on the head. The brought him, allegedly, about the power to think, the Apple on the ground and not to the side or upwards. The anecdote is supposed to have inspired Newton to discover the law of gravity.
-
A sign of the reign
What the Empire of Austria and the king have kingdoms of England, Denmark, Norway, and Prussia together? Right! It’s the realm of Apple in the Form of a world is a ball with a cross as an Emblem of domination. The Orb, the ancient Romans invented. They had a globe as a sign of their world domination.
-
Tree of eternal life
The Apple tree appears in many different cultures again and again in connection with the life. In the Nordic Sage, he is responsible for the eternal life. Similarly, in the Greek mythology. Martin Luther once said: “If I knew that tomorrow would be the day of judgement, I would still plant my Apple tree.”
-
The Apple Shot
Friedrich Schiller wrote his Drama “Wilhelm Tell” at the beginning of the 19th century. Century. It’s the story of Swiss national hero, the rebel against the power-hungry oppressors told. A socially critical piece, that is until today. The shot at the Apple, Tell’s son is wearing on the head, was a penalty that was invented by the mighty bailiff for William Tell.
-
The Fairest of them all
In the fairy tale “snow white and the seven dwarfs” by the brothers Grimm an evil Queen envied snow white, the beauty of her stepdaughter. In order to be “the Fairest of them all”, she wants snow white killed. The Queen into the poisoned Apple, snow white bites and falls over dead. A pallbearer trips, from snow white spits out the Apple and survived. Lucky!
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The record label of the Beatles
The Beatles founded in 1968, their own record label Apple Records. The Logo, a Granny Smith Apple was first on the legendary “White Album” of the Beatles, the at the 22. November 1968, appeared, shown in the picture. The name equality with the American company Apple Inc. led to a number of processes, which in part led to million in payments to the record company.
Apple, this is more than a Computer. Apple is history, Design, Lifestyle. History has written the company 40 years ago, as the three Nerds have screwed in a Garage, the prototype of a home computer. From this prototype one of the most successful Personal Computer became in the 70s. Design is what Apple’s other manufacturer has, to date, advance. To pack a challenge to the developer, high-performance technology in a pretty case. Lifestyle is what Apple brings, with its colorful little Gadgets under the (Young)people.
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Video: Apple in art
With 40, you might say, Apple has done everything it can reach – it is one of the richest companies in the world, has created an Empire of his own and continues to set the standards in computer technology.
With iPod and iPhone in the Champions League
Without iPod and iPhone, Apple would not be what it is today. Thus, the then Apple CEO Steve Jobs has brought the company after a long losing streak to the front again. He has made Apple products only available to buy, but at the same time managed to finalize a “Must-have” style. The Apple computers and laptops were very expensive, in contrast to the Windows computers. Something have done just technology Freaks. Or people that took advantage of the strong and stable Apple computer professional: musicians, architects, photographers. The Rest of the world looked with big eyes on the fancy gadgets, shrugged his shoulders and bought a Windows PC from Dell or laptops at Aldi.
Steve Wozniak (r) and Steve Jobs in 1976
But then this little flat came the box around the corner, was heavily promoted with commercials, in which silhouettes of young people dancing to the electrifying music and White earbuds, and white cables wore. On the incidence and tasteless MP3 Player market was a design revolution. Apple made it very clear: If you have this thing, then you’re hip. THIS is State of the art. Thus, Apple has tapped into a new Generation, and it was irresistible. The iPhone did a few years later, the Rest: So the Era of Smartphones was the beginning of the final. Apple afterwards, all the other stumbled.
With 40 at its Zenith?
The first Generation of the iPod was great, in the meantime, there’s also tiny iPods
Apple managed it for years after Steve Jobs’ death, to receive the interest of the public is maintained. Every new iPhone and iPad has been celebrated, to be pushed to the presentations, and sales launches, global Events, high, press, applause and all of the trimmings. On the Apple Keynotes, the latest darling how valuable art were staged objects, even the press fell in awesome Oh! and Ah!-Statements. Apple has managed to keep its products in pretty much all of the major US-American TV – and cinema productions to accommodate, so half of the time lights up in the successful Netflix series “House of Cards” almost anywhere an Apple Logo, the characters sit at iMacs, MacBook on your lap, play on iPad and make phone calls with iPhones.
On the Apple Keynote at the 21.3.16 there have been a few developments, but nothing around really New
And yet the feeling won’t let go of me, that at the time a little of the air is out. If there is not some new wonder device from Apple is being hyped as last year-Watch (whose sales only are ok) – then the Keynotes are still pretty. But great new things are just not in sight. That Apple is at exactly the 40. The birthday of a rather modest new product range on the market raises, suggests that these enormously creative innovation power has declined the last years.
It is also possible that Apple has very looks-conscious, as the market was stirred up in the past few years, and with little appetizers for his part, has contributed to this. The competition is also not stupid. At the time, there are also other companies such as Samsung or LG many beautiful things on the electronic-Gadget sector the shake up, there needs to be a proper Smash. Maybe Apple has something already in the drawer. And waiting just to get on the right Moment. Perhaps for the 41. Birthday.