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Apple could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its apple logo
(www.androidauthority.com)
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Actually Moses was VERY prudent, and strategically didn't use the exact word 'apple' only 'fruit' and 'of the tree' - because he knew apple would be a litigious bitch
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Apple's PR representative stated:
I reached out to Fruit of the Loom's PR representative, nothing yet.
There's some truth to this. Apple did used to mean basically any fruit. That's where we get "pineapple" in English. The Dutch call oranges "Chinese apples" and the French call potatoes "ground apples". Any new fruit or vegetable that came along was basically just some kind of apple. So I think Apple might have a case here.