Ah, ESA manzana. Yo pensé que el logo mismo de Apple... en realidad no tiene mucho sentido ni que aparezca una manzana en el teclado Apple, porque en realidad el símbolo es el trébol y la manzana es el logo.
Este tema es muy interesante desde el punto de vista del diseño y la funcionalidad. Según comenta Andy Herztfeld en Folklore.org, Steve un día dijo "There are too many Apples on the screen! It's ridiculous! We're taking the Apple logo in vain! We've got to stop doing that!".
Según Wikipedia, el origen del trébol es el siguiente:
The "clover" symbol has no official name, but is often given nicknames like splat, butterfly, beanie, flower or shamrock. Unicode standards documents call it the Place of Interest Sign. It is identical to the Saint Hannes cross, which is sometimes found in Scandinavia as an ornament on viking artifacts. It is used in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Norway and Sweden as a symbol of "sites of historical or touristic interest", e.g. church ruins, museums, interesting natural formations, etc. In Sweden, Finland, Norway and Estonia, it is used as a roadsign at such places.
The ? came into the Macintosh project at a late stage. The development team originally went for their old Apple key, but Steve Jobs found it frustrating when apples filled up the Mac's menus next to the key commands. Since Jobs felt that this was an over-use of the company logo, he opted for a different key symbol. With only a few days left before deadline, the team's bitmap artist Susan Kare started researching for the Apple's successor. She was browsing through a symbol dictionary when she came across the cloverleaf-like symbol, used in Sweden for "attractions on a campground". When she showed it to the rest of the team, everyone liked it, and so it became the symbol of the 1984 Macintosh command key.
Y ArsTechnica cuenta que pasó con el logo de Apple en el teclado de Microsoft.
http://arstechnica.com/journals/Apple.a … /1/13/2493
Mi opinión es que Apple también debería dejar de poner esa manzana en esa tecla, pero reconozco que como logo escondido y no tan obvio, funciona bien. Después de todo, cuando uno ve la manzana en un teclado se siente identificado y no sucede lo mismo con el trébol...
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