Apple, You Have to be Kidding, Right?

If this article in Wired had appeared on April 1, rather than April 3, I'd dismiss it out of hand as an April Fool's joke. But it appears to be serious: Apple Computer is suing New York City over the city's new logo for its GreeNYC campaign. Apparently, Apple fears that New York City might be confused for an Apple iPod, although the former is significantly larger and much harder to connect to an earpiece. Or something like that, anyway.

I mean, take a look at the logo (at the link). Yeah, it uses an apple. Doesn't look much to me like the Apple Computer logo, but apparently the apple-ness of it is enough to have Apple's lawyers in a swivet. Now corporate lawyers are generally well-paid to go into swivets over things that most of us would consider nonsense, and I'm sure Apple's lawyers have what, to them, seem like very good reasons. But they'll have to forgive the rest of us for snickering behind our hands. Although, to be safe, I'm going downstairs and dump the apples out of my refrigerator. I don't want a lawsuit for eating those corporate logos. Not worth it.

Hat tip: MediaPost