How Apple looked before it was fashionable

Summary: Ever wondered what the tech giant's branding and merchandise used to look like?

By Charlie Osborne for iGeneration | February 8, 2013 -- 12:03 GMT (04:03 PST)

A Tiffany-Apple clock or necklace and earrings?

In past times, Apple worked with jewelry maker Tiffany & Co. to produce a selection of products for fans of the Apple brand. Among the collection was the Apple-logo embossed gilded brass swivel alarm clock, apparently perfect for both the desk and suitcase, priced at $325.

If that didn't take your fancy, you could also take home with you a pair of Tiffany Apple earrings and a matching necklace, set in 14 carat gold for $89. Pens and decanters were also available, and everything came in a Tiffany box with satin ribbon.

(via Retronaut)

Topic: Apple

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Lawsuit time...

Looks like the Google style to me. Letters in multiple colors==another Apple look and feel lawsuit impends. :)

Peter Sabin
8 February, 2013 13:34

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Apple color logo

These were the days I wanted an Apple computers... Since they removed the colors from their logo I think they became exactly what they fought before: corporate like IBM!

lepoete73
8 February, 2013 13:46

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- Role reversal
  
  Well, As Apple became corporate, Google became evil and Microsoft became innovative
  
  ahumeniy
  8 February, 2013 15:17
  
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  - Innovative?
    
    Microsoft has hardly become innovative. In fact, in pretty much all the new markets they're playing catch up. The only reason Microsoft hasn't gone the way of the dinosaur is that they've become something akin to a utility. Just as the electric company won't go out of business and will always have customers, because people will always need electricity in their homes, Microsoft will continue chugging on as a highly profitable company because businesses need enterprise class networks, desktop operating systems, network operating systems and office suites, and Microsoft is pretty much the only game in town when it comes to this stuff.
    
    But when it comes to the digital music revolution, the smartphone revolution, the tablet revolution Microsoft is like the rich kid who was allowed to join the football team only because his dad was willing to buy the whole team new uniforms.
    
    Now I'm not an Apple fanboy. My only Apple product is a 6 year old iPod that I still isten to. My smartphone is Android as are my two tablets. But if you want to look at at innovative company, you simply have to give Apple credit where credit is due. Maybe they didn't create the digital music player market, but they did create a player so good that it basically ran everyone else out of the market. The iTunes store was revolutionary, proving that if music was priced right, people would pay for music downloads. The iPhone completely changed the way people thought of their phone. And the iPad is threatening to relegate desktops PCs to the office. Once it becomes simple to print out your boarding passes from your tablet (and the day is coming) you're going to see a lot of people whose only computing device is a tablet that they occasionally pair to a bluetooth keyboard.
    
    I like Microsoft. I like their products. I make a living administering their products, helping to keep alive and healthy a network of over 40,000 users (and one that servers millions of customers). I'm not going to sit here and tell you that Ubuntu desktops represent any real threat to Microsoft in the enterprise. But to claim that Microsoft is an innovative company? Puhlease. They do a great job of making the stuff they already have better every couple of years. But they aren't producing anything that's changing the way ordinary people think about technology.
    
    dsf3g
    9 February, 2013 02:40
    
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Wild green apples

Exploiting children and youg adults to sell their crap? So that's how The apple falls!

TACWALKER
8 February, 2013 14:51

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Image 9

That briefcase looks like a ThinkPad...

ahumeniy
8 February, 2013 15:12

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The keychain

I once had an Apple branded keychain with very smart detachment mechanism. Unfortunately, lost it.

However good their other products are, this one was something I genuinely miss! :)

danbi
8 February, 2013 15:18

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- Re: The keychain
  
  "I once had an Apple branded keychain with very smart detachment mechanism. Unfortunately, lost it."
  
  Perhaps you lost it because it wasn't that smart!
  
  DJL64
  11 February, 2013 16:52
  
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Hate to tell you this, but

those things WERE fashionable in that era.

baggins_z
8 February, 2013 15:49

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The 80s sucked so much...

... and always will, no matter how misguided losers feel about them. Kind of like Apple.

qwetry
8 February, 2013 17:20

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When, exactly, was this?

I'm guessing it was after they shafted the owners of the last truly innovative machine they ever built, the IIgs.

fairportfan
8 February, 2013 19:21

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- Huh?
  
  Wait, what? A last ditch attempt to squeeze a little life out of the Apple II series was Apple's last truly innovative machine?
  
  LOL, gimmie a break.
  
  dsf3g
  9 February, 2013 02:43
  
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When Andy Hertzfeld Invented Thunderscan

Back when scanners were scarce and expensive, an ex-Apple engineer developed a sensor that would fit in place of the print head on an Apple Imagewriter (and later ImageWriter II) printer. With that and special driver software that ran on a Mac, you could scan images at a modest budget, albeit at a lower quality too.

See, back then, Apple didn't mind people tinkering with its hardware. But not any more...

ldo17
9 February, 2013 04:44

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Apple was always fashionable.

The only real hated Apple geeks were those morons that still were slaves to the Apple II and paid unreal sums of money for the Apple IIgs.

johnsmith9875
10 February, 2013 18:40

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