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WTF!? Microsoft steals Apple's Universal logo
flickr.com — Now, granted it's just a yin yang symbol, but M$ is using the exact same colors but flipped the image horizontally.
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Microsoft steals ideas? How surprising
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Hmmmmm.......what else have they stolen?
*coughgadgetscough* -
Dude, its a ***** ying yang symbol... I understand that MS is bad, but seriously... that symbol existed before Steve Jobs graced this Earth with his presence.
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Sneezehomofart
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Nothing to see here. Just another case of Apple doing what everyone else has been doing all along, and Apple fanboys claiming that they were the first.
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A Ying Yang is hardly a stolen idea.
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All you Apple fanboys should just STFU. What's next, claiming that Steve Jobs invented the wheel AND fire?
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WTF are you talking about? Apple didn't come up with that, here's the origin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ying_Yang
I have seen several variations of it in company logos, in games, in magazines and many other places. -
WTF? Duplicate story.
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Everyone is saying that it is just a universal shape, but the colors are almost exactly the same.
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Please stop spelling 'yin yang' as 'ying yang'. Just because the Ying Yang Twins spell it wrong, doesn't mean you have to.
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The two logos on it do make it look ugly though. You've gotta admit that.
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I'm a mac fanboy, and honestly who cares anymore...
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yeah, they at least could have came up with something more original, peace sign?
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People still type M$?
Maybe I fell into a time machine and it's 2001 again. -
Wow...argck... choking on my own rage here.
Some people can really be idiots. Although I own nothing but Macs, the fanboys really need to stop reaching for a battle. -
Microsoft probably figures they shouldnt hide the fact that they steal ideas from Apple anymore, it just makes their products slightly more appealing if its a bit "Apple" ish.
I love how they made Microsoft Surface seem so new and innovative, when multi-touch is coming probably way before Microsoft to an Apple computer in the VERY near future.
Oh, and it wont be a 10 thousand dollar coffee table. It will be a laptop or an iphone.
Microsoft is sooo out of touch with what people want. Brown zune with a fake scroll wheel anyone? No? Pink maybe? -
If you really want to get pedantic, Apple stole it from the ancient Chinese.
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If I could submit this comment and effectively kill every single Apple fanboy, I would do it without thinking twice.
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I just laughed at the reply in the blog that ms is going down the toilet. Bunch of dumb rednecks.
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WTF? Mac fanboys mistake Ying/Yang symbol as an Apple original, then make themselves look even more stupid by claiming Microsoft stole it from Apple?
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Buried because its just a ying yang. Ugh.
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It's a very common symbol, if it were something more complicated and obvious then maybe but this is hardly stealing.
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Huh? Isn't Apple even more blatant about stealing images and even full videos?
http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/apples-little-problem-with-ripping-off-artists/
At least MS respects your intelligence enough to try to hide it in some token way. -
HAHA, what? you didn't think Microsoft stole stuff?
Look at Vista, the whole thing is a cheap OSX knock off. A really cheap one. -
Microsoft's slogan... DO HARM!
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Thats not stolen... those are just surprisingly close colors..... kinda cool. :P
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I've lost faith in all of them...
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whoo! they are using a yin yang! im no mS fanboy, but seriously the yin yang was there way before apple existed.
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Yes, yin yang. But I like the Ying Yang Twins, too, despite the fact that they spell their name incorrectly. Anyhow, the symbol is old! This story was more impressive to me: http://www.thegamegods.net/2007/07/14/intel-onboard-with-the-100-laptop-project/
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WTF!? Apple steals ancient Chinese symbol
Now, granted they changed the colors a bit, but it's still just a damn yin yang! -
Go to hell apple fan boy and take your crap with you.
Yes colours are similar but that logo has been about got CENTURIES.
It has a meaning and that is what MS wanted, its familiar and people know what it means which is why apple used it also. -
God, i love Microsoft and their "innovations"
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"The trouble with Microsoft is they have no taste. They have no taste and I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way."
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yin yang = a little bit of bad in every good....microsoft=a little bit of crap in every product
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OMG BREAKING NEWS: MICROSOFT STEALS THE LETTER M FROM APPLE'S MAC
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Haha @ the first tag
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Buried as inaccurate.
Digg needs a bury option for fanboy retardedness. -
It's a ***** yin-yang symbol. Been around before either company existed. And to be honest, Microsoft's version looks far superior.
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The M in Mac is the EXACT same san-serif typography as Microsoft. ***** thieves.
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the 1400 - 1100 BC initial historical records of the yin yang symbol surpass any trademark claim i think. everything repeats itself... marketing is no exemption.
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Damn mother nature for stealing Apple's apple design! How dare she!
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buried for GET A LIFE!!!
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The Microsoft site doesn't point to that page anymore.
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OMG!!!!!!!!!!
This is thievery at its worstest!!!! -
Wow, no way, they stole the yin and yang symbol that's existed for hundreds if not thousands of years?!!!! LAME ARTICLE. Buried
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Steve Jobs is an anagram of Sboj Teves who invented the Ching Chang coin operated palm reader, which was inspiration for the Ying Yang symbol. Such is hard proof that Steve Jobs will die for our sins.
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Microsoft just keeps doing it don't they?
http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2006/12/microsoft_uses_.html -
1. It's a Yin Yang, Apple doesn't own it
2. M$ is a stupid term, Jobs is the unrelenting capitalist, while Gates is the worlds greatest philontropist.
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