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Apple's first logo showed a bitten apple.

Why it is true

Apple's first logo, designed by Ronald Wayne in 1976, showed Isaac Newton under an apple tree, with a ribbon and the words Newton. The bitten apple was only adopted in 1977 by Rob Janoff.

Source: Computer History Museum

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