# Steve Jobs is dead. **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [October 5, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/steve-jobs-is-dead/217200 "2011-10-05T16:48:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tunerfreak](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tunerfreak/32/7427_2.png) [@Tunerfreak](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Tunerfreak)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/steve-jobs-is-dead/217200/41 "2011-10-06T15:58:20Z")
> [@Blue Eyed Devil](#): > > Never heard this about the logo before… > > it’s an homage to Alan Turing, who was a mathematician and computer scientist. He killed himself by taking a bite of an apple laced with cyanide. He was rumoured to be homosexual, and back then it wasn’t accepted at all, and that was one of the reasons for his suicide. The original apple logo was rainbow color, a bitten rainbow color apple… for Turing, one of the greatest computer scientists of history. that actually make a lot of sense about the old apple logo, neat to know EDIT: from wikipedia > **The logo of [Apple computer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.) is often erroneously referred to as a tribute to Alan Turing, with the bite mark a reference to his method of suicide.[[70]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#cite_note-69) Both the designer of the logo[[71]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#cite_note-70) and the company deny that there is any homage to Turing in the design of the logo.[[72]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#cite_note-71)** > **[Alan Turing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing)** > > Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (/ˈtjʊərɪŋ/; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. He is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer Born in... ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 4:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/steve-jobs-is-dead/217200/42 "2011-10-06T16:04:00Z")
Must have been a cool guy to work for if he was giving away Porches: > **[When Steve Jobs gave away Porsche 944s as an employee benefit](https://jalopnik.com/5847372/when-steve-jobs-gave-away-porsche-944s-as-an-employee-benefit)** > > Before Steve Jobs turned Apple into the dominant computer company on Earth, he spent a few decades scraping by as an outsider. That was still true back when he was rewarding Apple salespeople with brand-new Porsche 944s. ![http://fastcache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/12/2011/10/snapsj2.jpg](http://fastcache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/12/2011/10/snapsj2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/steve-jobs-is-dead/217200/43 "2011-10-06T17:09:50Z")
^That was the first car I ever purchased. lol With over $80billion in cash the bonus this year should be about $10million per employee. CHA-CHING. ---
**Author:** ![Paulo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/paulo/32/7328_2.png) [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/steve-jobs-is-dead/217200/44 "2011-10-06T17:16:41Z")
> [@Onyx Z32](#): > > Must have been a cool guy to work for if he was giving away Porches: Those porches must have really increased the value of their homes. Nice! ---
**Author:** ![robftw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6bbea6/32.png) [@robftw](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/robftw)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 5:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/steve-jobs-is-dead/217200/45 "2011-10-06T17:48:57Z")
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**Author:** ![Neon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@Neon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Neon)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/steve-jobs-is-dead/217200/46 "2011-10-07T06:57:17Z")
![http://images.memegenerator.net/instances/250x250/10445073.jpg](http://images.memegenerator.net/instances/250x250/10445073.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 7:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/steve-jobs-is-dead/217200/47 "2011-10-07T07:24:47Z")
> [@Blue Eyed Devil](#): > > He was rumoured to be homosexual, and back then it wasn’t accepted at all, and that was one of the reasons for his suicide. I’m glad we’ve come so far… ---
**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 7:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/steve-jobs-is-dead/217200/48 "2011-10-07T07:41:33Z")
> [@Neon](#): > Many lols ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 7:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/steve-jobs-is-dead/217200/49 "2011-10-07T07:43:20Z")
Good read about the logo: > **[Unraveling the tale behind the Apple logo - CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2011/10/06/opinion/apple-logo/)** > > If beauty is indeed truth, as John Keats claimed, then this story ought to be true: The logo on the back of your iPhone or Mac is a tribute to Alan Turing, the man who laid the foundations for the modern-day computer, pioneered research into... ---
**Author:** ![Motocrossx23](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/motocrossx23/32/5120_2.png) [@Motocrossx23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Motocrossx23)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 7:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/steve-jobs-is-dead/217200/50 "2011-10-07T07:57:55Z")
Thats awesome actually. ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2011, 5:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/steve-jobs-is-dead/217200/51 "2011-10-08T05:48:58Z")
> “I’m afraid it didn’t have a thing to do with it,” he said. “It’s a wonderful urban legend.” > Janoff says that he received no specific brief from Steve Jobs, and although he’s hazy about how he settled on the simple outline of an apple, the reason for the bite is crystal clear: it’s there for scale, he says, so that a small Apple logo still looks like an apple and not a cherry. Wow the suicide story fit so well that I believed it. But this explanation makes sense. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/steve-jobs-is-dead/217200.md?page=2)