THE APLEE SYMBOL

accepted that the logo is a reference to Isaac Newton, a curiousurban legend says that the bite of the apple pays homage to the mathematician Alan Turing, who committed suicide by eating apoisoned apple cianuro.according urban legend, the rainbow ofcolors Would be a reference to the rainbow flag, as homage toTuring's homosexuality. However, these assumptions have not been confirmed, and in fact, the colors of the logo is not evenlisted in the same order as in the rainbow flag, as this was designed two years later the birth of Apple.17 logo other theoriesabout the motivation of the apple as the apple of knowledge or referral by the bite of the computer byte (in English, written bitebite), have also been denied by Janoff, the original designer.