If real Easter eggs are not yours this weekend, it is possible that the search for digital is more pleasant. And there are some interesting to find at their disposal, provided that it has an iPhone or Mac. Apple has packed iOS and macOS operating systems with several small fun references, many of them go back to the legacy of the company or other companies in the technology industry.
Microsoft blue death screen
This has existed for a while, and is a fans favorite.
The search engine in your MAC can show other computers connected to the same network. These computers are represented by icons. If the connected computers are other Mac, you will see icons that accurately represent the shape of the computer, such as a modern macbook or even an ancient G4 IMAC from the early 2000s.
But if the connected computers are PC with Windows, you will see the same icon for all: an ugly CRT beige monitor with the infamous death screen of Windows Blue of death: the users of the PC of the screen see when something has come out very badly with the Windows operating system.
The choice of icon is Apple’s subtle excavation in its eleven architects, and has been a Easter egg in Mac’s operating systems for a few decades.
icon of the iPhone voice memorandum application
In this case, the Easter egg is an application icon for iPhone. The waveform on the icon of voice mamos application may not be just a random glyph. Instead, Siliconrepublic saysThe waveform shape is the one you get when you use voice memorandum to record the word “Apple”. In my tests, it is quite precise, but its mileage can vary depending on how words state.
Safari reading list icon
Apple has cast some direct references to Steve Jobs in its operating systems. The first can be found in the Safari application on iPhone. Open Safari and then touch the score icon at the bottom of the screen.
See the “Reading List” icon in the center of the emerging window? Those are a couple of glasses, but not anyone. They are remarkably identical to the round glasses that Steve Jobs made iconic.
Record label with Steve Jobs phrases
There is another reference of Steve Jobs reported in the Apple software. This is in macOS. If you open the system configuration application, click users and groups and then click your profile photo to edit it, you will notice that in the “suggestions” folder full of icons, you can select an icon from a registration rotating plate.
Well, if you go to the image file of the icon, it is really stored in macOS (Macintosh HD> Library> User Pictures> Instruments) and opens the “Turntable.HEIC” file, you will see the record in the lists of rotating dishes four tracks on its label: “1. Magic 2. Revolution 3. Boom! 4. Incredible.” These were all the words that the works often exclaimed during their speeches and demos of main notes, grades Idropnews.
“There are crazy people here”
Together with his seminal announcement “1984”, Apple’s most emblematic campaign was probably “different thinking”, from the end of the 1990s. That campaign presents a poem called “Here are for the crazy people. “
Apple has commemorated that poem in two places in its operating systems. The first is in the system configuration application in macOS. Click on the visualization preferences panel and notice that text size adjustment icons show the poem opening text.
“Here is the crazy ones” can also be found in the pages of the open book emoji found in iOS and macOS.
Leave it snow (in the application of the Apple store)
Finally, in 2021, Apple slipped a little Easter egg in its Apple Store application for iPhone, noted Apple. If you write “Let it snow” in the Apple Store application field, the application will show the digital snow that falls on the screen. While this Easter egg is not a direct reference to Apple, it is fun to activate during winter holidays.
A story of Apple’s Easter eggs
During my research for this story, I consulted several older Easter eggs from the oldest Easter, such as those published by Idropnews, Macrumoresand Mental thread“Be sure to have forgotten the greats.” I discovered that Apple has really eliminated a good amount of them from their operating systems.
These removals include old Easter eggs that allowed you to play tetris in the terminal application or see Star Wars recreated in ASCII. There was also A Bitcoin Easter egg in macOSBut Apple has now also eliminated that. I also remember the time that when you wrote “Evil Empire” in the application of the OS X dictionary, you would find the entrance for Microsoft. But that seems to have disappeared from macOS now too.
In other words, it seems that Apple has been taking energetic measures with Easter eggs in recent years, so enjoy the above while you can.
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