I do sometimes wonder if Steve Jobs was the antichrist or devil, or whatever. Introduced the revolutionary smart phone complete with an icon of forbidden fruit with a bite taken from it. And then disappeared from Earth shortly after.
Realistically, scholars believe the forbidden fruit referred to is a pomegranate- because geographically it makes more sense. Apples originally come from the region around Kazakhstan- much further East than where the garden of Eden was supposedly located.
Some people also think it was a fig. Ultimately the way it was originally written, it's impossible to know for sure but it's unlikely that it was an apple.
I don't know about the choice for logo and intent behind the symbol, but I find the geographic origins of plants interesting.
But he says none of these are true. The logo was an apple because that’s the company name and a bite was taken out of it to make it clear it’s not a cherry. The rainbow colors were because they shipped color graphics with the Apple ][ which was rare for the time.
They also proposed a logo without a bite taken out and solid color and metallic versions of the logo that were used in certain marketing.
https://creativebits.org/interview/interview_rob_janoff_desi...
But then if Steve was the devil then this is good cover.
Jobs was a self proclaimed fruitarian - so choosing a fruit seems straightforward.
[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/12/apple...
Did anyone ever talk about this seriously?
Note that the logo was introduced in 1976, more than 30 years before the introduction of the iPhone.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Apple_fi...
And the bite was supposedly put in to identify the simplified logo as an apple, people thought it was a cherry.