19. The Logo Used To Be Upside Down (For A Reason)
The famous Apple logo has itself been host to all sorts of scurrilous rumours, with some suggesting the bite taken out of the eponymous fruit represents Original Sin, Eve taking a chunk out of that oh-so-tempting fruit in the Garden Of Eden. Which is apparently nonsense, they just liked it more than the full apple. Still, there's some weird trivia associated with the Apple logo. Like for example, on the old Macbooks they were designed so that the logo was upside down on the lid when you opened it compared to the ubiquitous right-side-up Apple logos that dot coffee shops in every major city in the world nowadays. That wasn't an oversight on the part of the intensely design-conscious Steve Jobs, however. It was intentional. Apple did a bunch of studies and found that, if it was the other way round, people had a habit of trying to open the laptop the wrong way round. Then we got smarter.
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