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by philwelch 4570 days ago
Apple was honoring people like Mandela since before Google was a company.
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Okay I'll bite since I don't know this. Like who?

  In 2001, when George Harrison died
  In 2002, when Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize
  In 2003, when Gregory Hines died
  In 2005, when Rosa Parks died
  In 2007, when Al Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize
  In 2011, when Steve Jobs died
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Different
Google was founded in 1998?
Oops.

  "Think different" was an advertising slogan
  for Apple Inc (formerly Apple Computer Inc)
  in 1997 created by the Los Angeles office
  of advertising agency TBWA\Chiat\Day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Different
Steve Jobs, of course.

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