Is there any other universal icon that is at all related to throwing things away? The recycling icon might just be a win by default.
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OR3X@lemmy.world 11 hours agoI think Microsoft put the recycle logo on theirs because Apple used the “Trash bin” moniker and Microsoft wanted to appear more green or whatever.
Davel23@fedia.io 11 hours ago
Apple sued Microsoft over the "look and feel" of the desktop interface, claiming that Windows was too similar to Mac OS. The suit was mostly dismissed, except in the case of the trash bin. The judge ruled that the Microsoft version came too close to Apple's. From that point on Microsoft used the Recycle Bin.
OR3X@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Ah, fascinating. Poor Xerox though.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Xerox also bought 100,000 shares of Apple in 79’ for $10 a share to help with the research. That would be worth 6.2 billion dollars worth of stock now. But they sold it in 89