Abstract: Apple’s philosophy is to pursue perfection, and Apple mobile phones are also sought after by many people because of their brand value, but you may be curious. After reading the following story, you will understand the meaning behind the Apple logo. The bitten apple is really sad.
Apple’s philosophy is to pursue perfection, and Apple mobile phones are sought after by many people because of their brand value, but you may be curious: why is such a perfect product with a strange Apple logo? A mutilated apple that had been bitten inexplicably. After reading the following story, you will understand the meaning behind the Apple logo. The bitten apple is really sad.
The Apple logo comes from a story from World War II.
The beginning is great:
The Allies launched a top-secret operation code-named ULTRA, and worked hard to obtain Germany's most secret communication cipher machine. To this end, the British Led by Turing, a young graduate of Cambridge University, he built the world's first real computer, thereby cracking the code that Germany thought could not be cracked, fully mastering the secrets of the German submarine force, and finally destroying the German navy. He made a decisive contribution to defeating Germany in advance.
However, the ending of the story is very tragic:
The four key figures involved in the operation all met unfortunate ends. Rejewski, a Polish man who developed the basic algorithm for code-breaking, was not trusted by the party after the war and was assigned to be a corporate manager. He never had the opportunity to do cryptographic research in his life; Friedman, who cracked Japan's top-secret code, was After a nervous breakdown, he was troubled by one question all his life: Why didn't the U.S. government use the Japanese code he cracked to predict the Pearl Harbor incident? Schmidt, who asked the Allies for $10,000, betrayed the German cipher machine in 42 years He was discovered and shot by the Germans; but comparatively speaking, Alan Turing's fate was the most tragic.
After the war, he returned to Cambridge University and lived a secret life of homosexuality. At that time, homosexuality was considered a felony in Britain. In 1952, he was arrested for having sexual intercourse with a 19-year-old man. The British government gave him two options - either go to jail or undergo experimental medical hormone treatment to eradicate his 'gay complex'. He chose to undergo hormone therapy, but the treatment left him in excruciating pain and his breasts continued to swell.
On June 8, 1954, Turing was 42 years old, entering the most glorious peak of his life. One morning, the housekeeper walked into his bedroom and found that the lamp was still on and there was an apple on the bedside, with only a small part bitten. Turing was sleeping on the bed, and everything was as usual. But this time, Turing fell asleep forever and would never wake up again...
After autopsy, the forensic doctor concluded that the death was caused by highly toxic cyanide. The apple was soaked in a cyanide solution. of. But the outside world said that he committed suicide by taking poison. Turing could no longer bear the pain and humiliation. Turing prepared a cyanide drug in his home laboratory, injected it into an apple, and took a bite himself. apple. He died within just a few minutes. Only four people attended his funeral, including his mother, a generation of genius who ended his life like this. About four years after his death, Britain abolished laws criminalizing homosexuality.
History has every reason to remember the name Turing forever, not because of the important role he played in Operation ULTRA, but because of his outstanding contributions to pioneering computer technology in the information age. . About 20 years after his death, Steve Jobs, a fan of Turing, named the company Apple and used a bitten apple as its logo.
Apple’s logo is an apple with a bite taken out of it. Very few people truly understand its meaning!
The father of computers, Alan Mathison Turing He has made many contributions to the development of artificial intelligence. For example, Turing once wrote a paper called "Can Machines Think?" and proposed a test method for determining whether a machine is intelligent, the Turing test. So far, there are trial competitions every year. In addition, Turing's famous Turing machine model laid the foundation for the way modern computers work logically. Everyone should now understand why Steve Jobs was willing to appoint Cook, who is also gay, as CEO. The editor deeply feels that a great person is not only about career achievements, but also about being inclusive and seeking common ground while reserving differences.