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Letter from Appleseed
31th of June
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Serial Number : 6319-415-1239
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Adam
The letter from John Appleseed is a Steve Jobs quote minus the Dear Kate and Take Care, John Appleseed parts
Chris
They also used it for a commercial in their "Think Different" campaign.
Tom
you missed the best image, the image of a PC (not a mac computer) on the network. It has the blue screen of death!
Rob Schultz
Tom, That's my favorite one too. My W2K3 Systems Admin didn't find the screenshot nearly as funny as I did! ;)
tymek
Only 1/9 of these are reasonably interesting-- and that's the first one.
mx
To be honest, i can't belive something as pompous and downright stupid as the Windows BSOD made it into the leopard release. This just makes the apple-jackass sterotype all the more visible.
John
mx, no it makes you a #^$%# dumbass you buys into the anti-Apple zealot buzzwords. Loser.
canacaboon
Also, iTunes shows the software version on the disc.
ljk
The Mail icon says 'HELLO FROM CUPERTINO.' Well hello back.
Required
@John: Way to help combat the stereotype of Apple users being abusive of anyone who doesn't mindlessly bash Windows and Microsoft. The BSOD icon is juvenile and has no place in a professional OS.
bmark
@required/mx: Lighten up and get a sense of humor. @John: don't be such a punk.
John Appleseed
@Required: But's that's it, isn't it ? OSX is mainly targeted at consumers, precisely the people most likely to resonate with the BSOD; not having IT-staff on-call just to clear up any problems. Seems entirely reasonable to me. The iconic feature of the mac is the 'happy mac' face. The iconic feature of Windows is the BSOD. Consider it a celebration of that :)
Dustin
I appreciate the attention to detail these icons represent. Crafted beauty!
Chris
Check out the CSSEdit 2 icon, pretty cool
Aaron
I would love to see the source art for the Keynote '08 Icon. It definitely says _something_ it's just too blurry.... any conspiracy theorists out there figure it out?
Matt
Your assessment of the calendar icon showing a Jun 31st incorrect. It's meant to have next month (Aug) with 31 days and last month (Jun) with 30 as is correct. When you look at a calendar you're generally planning ahead so it would make more sense for the following month to be shown first.
Chris
It would be a poor tear-off calendar that didn't show the current month. It shows this month first, then next months. Who wants to live in the past?
Gregor
@Matt, who wants a calendar with last month and next month, but not the current month? Let alone the previous month shown after next month... look a bit closer: the two months shown flow together: Wed 31st followed by Turs 1st. The two months shown are the current month and next month. In this case, that's July and August. June isn't on there anywhere. The picture is still wrong, but the problem is that it shows August with only 30 days.
Jake
@Required/mx, the BSOD icon just gives the idea that Apple users are professionals but they aren't a stuck-up anal bitch like all the PC users who have to guard their beige box with a sword and shield. Oh, and it's funny how all Apple vs. PC wars are 90% pro-PC, simply because PC users apparently wake up and say "I feel like teasing apple users since I feel more confident in a shaky environment on my XP box since I'm too poor/smart to upgrade to vista." fail'd. @Gregor, it seems almost as if they flipped June and July, so June is on the far right, and July is on the left. Odd, huh?
Josiah Pugh
I'm amazed that Apple put the "Think Different" motto in there. Awesome!
Nature Wallpaper
I like the coverflow icons but the folder icons are horrific!
Wendy
I think the calendar shows following month and the month after that, so it makes sense that August has 31 days and September has 30 days. But the question is, "Where is the current month?"
Fubiz
Very nice!
mattybinks
@ Aaron: If you go to this file, there's a huge version of the Keynote icon that's used in the iWork 08 Tour file. You can kinda make out the text but it's tough: Macintosh HD > Library > Application Support > iWork 08 > iWork Tour > Contents > Resources > Shared > Keynote_icon.png
dmporter77
I know that is halarious when on the Network it shows up as a BIG blue screen!
NoSalt
6319-415-1239 ... I must admit that I don't get this one.
n[ate]vw
The Keynote icon was "decoded" by Ken Drake, it's the words to a song: http://www.keynoteuser.com/news/?p=257
Chuck Norris
Don't kill them babies, Al Gore!
Dylan Bennett
Go look at an actual calendar. The months shown in the calendar icon match May and June of 2006. Or they could be August and September of 2005. Which would actually make more sense, since those are the months after July. Other possibilities are March and April of 2004, or October and November of 2001, or May and June of 2000, or March and April 1999. Okay, yeah... I think I'm done showing how much of a geek I am.
sikanrong
dude, you totally did miss the network windows icon, that's fucking hilarious - totally picking on redmond, with style. Get that @ the top of the list, it's totally better than the dear kate letter.
Dwev
"Here's to the crazy ones..." is not a Jobs quote, but was written by copywriter Craig Tanimoto at Apple's ad agency TBWA/Chiat/Day. It's great prose, but commonly mis-attributed. :)
Joris
I'm afraid we'll have to Google around to find the blue screen icon...
Jared
iCal was announced July 17, 2002. If you check the calendar for those months of 2002, the dates match up the icon. July 1 is on a Monday and August 1 is on a Thursday. However, the one thing that doesn't line up is that August has 31 days and not 30, which I would tend then to think that the designer made a mistake when designing the icon, forgetting that it doesn't always go every other month with 31 days.
Danny
on the iCal icon, it's not the 31st of June, it's showing the next two months, August and September. August has 31 days, September has 30.
Josh
Good work...Impressive!
Tyler
Is the calculator number a date? 12/3/74 and 2/18/75 or possibly 1/23/74?
Hmm? What's this box for?
I think if the calculator number is a date, it's 1/23/74, since Jobs took a trip to India fairly early that year. Not sure about 1975, although he did meet Wozniak in that year. That's all google will tell me.
BWU
The .75 refers to the year 1975, the year Jobs and Wozniak formed Apple. The 12374218 is the number of seconds into the year 1975 (143 days = May 23rd) for when the actual "production" has begun
Free Wallpaper
Some of the angles aren't so great, but is a great try man...keep up the good work.
Don Conway
@Required: "@John: Way to help combat the stereotype of Apple users being abusive of anyone who doesn't mindlessly bash Windows and Microsoft. The BSOD icon is juvenile and has no place in a professional OS." The BSOD has no place in a professional OS... Doesn't Windows BSOD naturally?
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