47 years ago today, Apple Computer, Inc. was officially incorporated. Although everyone knows that Apple’s first logo depicts Newton and his apple tree, but after that, what appeared most often at Apple’s new product launch conferences or on various electronic product interfaces was another. A true apple tree master – John Appleseed.
The man who is always the first to use new Apple products
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An Apple user raised this question in the support community: “I just checked the credit cards I have on my phone, and it turns out that four credit cards are registered under the name of John Appleseed. Has anyone solved this problem? How did the name John Appleseed appear there? This is really worrying!” It seems that the questioner does not often pay attention to Apple conferences, otherwise he would have the impression that this is actually just Apple A pseudonym most commonly used when showcasing new products or features.
However, even if they have seen this name, many people just think that John Appleseed is just Apple’s own version of “John Doe” (roughly equivalent to the Chinese “Anonymous”, “Passenger A”, “Wang Xiaoming”, “Zhang San Li Si”). But in fact, John Appleseed was a real person, and he was a historical great figure that every American elementary school student must know, or he was closer to a mythical figure.
The first “Father of Apple”
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John Appleseed’s real name was John Chapman. He was born in Massachusetts in 1774. The United States was not even called USA at that time, but British America. He witnessed the founding of the United States when he was two years old, and later became an apple farmer when he was about 20 years old. . In many historical records, John Chapman is described as a man who lived an extremely romantic and unrestrained life – although he was an apple farmer, he lived a nomadic life, carrying a large bag of apple seeds on his back and walking across several states in the United States. Find good farmland and fertile soil to plant an apple orchard.
However, in terms of historical facts, John Appleseed may be closer to a shrewd but eccentric businessman who spent 50 years growing his own apple kingdom. Logically speaking, he is a veritable big landowner, but he still wears simple and even simple clothes. While introducing apple trees to various places, he also used this opportunity to communicate with local families, exchange accommodation, and preach. Because of this, he became a great man while he was still alive, being a vegetarian and unmarried, and people called him Johnny Appleseed.
The seeds scattered everywhere grew out of the bitten apple
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Finally, John Appleseed, who dreamed of spending his life growing apples so that people no longer need to go hungry, passed away in 1845 at the age of 70. After his death, he left 1,200 acres of land to his sisters (about the size of 2.4 Monaco territories), which does not include the other six small parcels of land he owned (although it is called a “small parcel of land”, one of them There are approximately 15,000 trees planted).
The legendary story of John Appleseed has been passed down to this day. Not only has it become the theme inspiration for many literary works and film and television works, but his name and image have been used in streets, schools and stamps. But the most famous one is probably the man who started working in the Steve Jobs era. It has been ubiquitous in the Apple world since the beginning, but sometimes it is still mistaken for the name of Apple Pay fraud hackers.
It is said that the only remaining tree planted by John Appleseed himself is still standing in Ohio today, and a Johnny Appleseed Museum has also been built here. After hearing such a story, it is not difficult to imagine why, even in such small details, Apple quietly demonstrates its self-expectation to live out a long-lasting pioneering spirit.
