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Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by AStonesThrow on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @04:32PM (#44056018)
I mean, it was difficult for people to ignore a company that sold their first computer for a retail price of $666 and chose as their logo a rainbow fruit with a single chomp on the side.

And then rose up in competition against a company whose logo is literally a cross, and code-named an OS "Chi-Rho" [Cairo, XP] -- yes, it's a little "on the nose" by now.

It's also a hoot to just see LDS missionaries waiving their iPhones around with the Genesis Apple clearly visible. To be honest, as a Catholic I have seen no overtly demonic or Antichrist features in Apple Computer themselves, and frankly most tech companies try to adapt postures as agnostic and irreligious anyway, just due to globalism and market share. The {Free|Open|Net}BSD daemons and logo/mascots have long been subsumed into Apple's juggernaut anyway!

Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by travem on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @05:30PM (#44056489)
> It's also a hoot to just see LDS missionaries waiving their iPhones around with the Genesis Apple clearly visible.

To be fair, the LDS doctrine around the fruit from the Garden of Eden and the fall is quite different from the Catholic understanding, it’s seen as a necessary, even a good thing, in the overall plan.

Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by AStonesThrow on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @05:35PM (#44056525)
> quite different from the Catholic understanding

Oh? And what do you believe is the Catholic understanding?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_culpa

https://www.usccb.org/prayer-worship/liturgical-year/easter/...

O truly necessary sin of Adam,

destroyed completely by the Death of Christ!

O happy fault

that earned so great, so glorious a Redeemer!

To be honest, I would say that these signs placed by Apple Computer were done not out of malice, but by way of warning. To say, "Here Be Dragons!" To counsel those who may be ignorant, there are pitfalls ahead, and be careful, because you could lose your soul to these things, even though they are designed as morally neutral.

Computers are a tool, after all. The fruit depicted could just as easily be from the Tree of Life. It's all about how we use those tools.

Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by twodave on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @06:44PM (#44057008)
I would argue that it’s likely there was no Biblical reference intended, but that even if it was, it’s then more likely the apple is a reference to “knowledge” (as in, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil) than a vague warning about using their products.
Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive by jazzyjackson on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @05:52PM (#44056658)
Could also just be to show up first in the yellow pages

Also tools are not neutral, they carry the intent of their designer and make whatever they are designed to do easier than it used to be; if you want to be convinced please read Douglas Rushkoff's Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age