Brandon Werner

Homage To The Crazy Ones Hidden In Apple OS X TextEdit Icon

There are lots of fun things to find in the new high-resolution icons if you explore. The most interesting so far is the text in the TextEdit application I saw going through cover-flow in my Application folder. Written on the icon’s page is a letter addressed to Katie from our good friend John Appleseed, a favorite demo user introduced during the iPhone demos last year. It contains the text from the famous Apple Think Different campaign in 1997.

Here's To The Crazy Ones

I wonder if anyone new to the Apple platform would even get the reference, although the commercials are still fresh in most Apple fan’s minds.

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