Apple users urged to install the latest update
Apple customers should download the latest software update after security vulnerabilities were discovered.
Owners of the Apple iPhones, iPads, iPods, and Macs are being urged to install the latest updates now.
“For our customers’ protection, Apple doesn’t disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available,” said Apple.
Foad Fadaghi, managing director and principal analyst at Telsyte, said it was “alarming” so many Apple devices needed a security update, but says consumers should be regularly updating their devices anyway.
Mr Fadaghi also said “it goes without saying” that if your device is too old for the software update, it may be time for a newer model.
“Typically, consumers are so dependent on their smartphones to run their lives that it’s inadvisable to be running any device, whether it’s Apple or not, that doesn’t support the most recent security patches,” he said.
Apple’s next software update should be the iOS 16, which several tech publications predict will launch in September.
About the logo itself from Rob Janoff who designed it:
Janoff: Yes, funny story. The apple shape itself didn't have anything to do with computers. It's to get people to notice that an Apple computer was not some piece of hard-edged metal that has no place in your home and that your kid wouldn't want to be near. Lots of different fruits have a stem, are sort of round with a leaf dangling off of it. So the bite in the apple was initially meant to indicate that it was an apple, and not something else. Also metaphorically the bite indicated biting into all the knowledge users would get out of this computer.
What's funny, though, is after I came up with it my creative director, Chip, said "Oh guess what, Rob. You just designed something you didn't realize. The word 'byte' is a computer word. And you took a bite out of Apple." I wasn't computer literate enough to see that initially. And I was like, there's a bit of wit that will last! Any logo that makes a joke or engages you in that way you're going to remember. And the rainbow colors had to do with the USP of this product. The Apple computer was the only one that could show images in color.
(Taken from Forbes)
Further to Sophie's explanations ...
From Fruit to Fame: The Evolution of the Apple Logo
In 1976 the job of creating the company’s first logo fell to Ronald Wayne, who decided to use Isaac Newton’s image sitting below a tree – the same Isaac Newton who discovered gravity when an apple fell out of a tree onto his head. After only a year, Steve Jobs announced the logo as “old-fashioned” and thought it was too challenging to use on a smaller scale so he hired Rob Janoff to create a new logo.
This article explains the reasons behind various changes since 1976.
Just some trivia about Apple.
Alan Turing ended his life on June 7th 1954. He bit into an apple laced with cyanide and ate a bite of it. He did it because the British government chemically castrated him, humiliated him and prosecuted him for being gay. For that reason there is a bitten Apple Logo in honor of Alan Turing. He invented computer science and using his early designs cracked the Enigma Code - the encrypted machine that the Nazi and German Army used to communicate secret commands to each other during world war - thereby saving millions of human lives and bringing us to the modern computer age. Pride month isn't about dancing on floats in gold shorts and waving a rainbow flag, it's about remembering everyone has a right to be happy, to love who they want to love and to recognise the outstanding contribution that everyone can make a society free of fear and prejudice.