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Re:The bizarre role reversal of Apple and Microsoft by jfoutz on Friday October 28, 2016 @04:48PM (#12820532)
App£e. or Appl€. Ideally you could use the $ symbol but there's no s in Apple. Sure, you can just throw in whatever character you want, but !nevets doesn't make a lot of sense.

what you're shooting for here is a pun. You want something that looks like a regular character, so @pple is kind of cute, but there are two obvious problems. One, it kind of looks like a direct message to pple, which falls apart. &pple isn't bad, but & doesn't have the association with money, so you don't get the pun.

There are a bunch of currency symbols you can use, there's a list here [1]. Check it out ₩₦€v€t$, then all of your currency puns will be money.

[1] http://www.xe.com/symbols.php

Re:The bizarre role reversal of Apple and Microsoft by mywittyname on Friday October 28, 2016 @06:24PM (#12821286)
This is HN humor at its finest.
Re:The bizarre role reversal of Apple and Microsoft by wnevets on Friday October 28, 2016 @04:56PM (#12820604)
yeah I was going to do that but apple is an american company and it doesnt make sense to use the euro. Using $pple is just as lazy as using m$ to call microsoft greedy.
Re:The bizarre role reversal of Apple and Microsoft by dragonbonheur on Friday October 28, 2016 @05:46PM (#12821032)
Re:The bizarre role reversal of Apple and Microsoft by clock_tower on Friday October 28, 2016 @06:58PM (#12821478)
Which makes Appl€ particularly fitting!