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>The simple Apple logo against a plain backdrop provides a clean advertisement for Apple.

Exactly. Buying billboards on the most expensive streets in the world is very expensive. Having your customers sitting lined up in a row in coffee shops with their laptop lids with the lighted apple logo pointing outward to the street on these very same streets must be very valuable advertising. I'm constantly amazed when I walk by coffee shops and see the typical 75% apple market share, when just a decade ago they were really a niche player.



Just to point out, if Apple did what I'm suggesting they would still achieve the same effect because the laptop would be on and thus shining through.

It's only when it's off that they would miss out - but most of the time if my laptop is out of my bag then it's on.


If they did that, having the logo light up through aluminium would make an awesome ad.


I use a speck black satin plastic case on my air, and you see nothing when it is powered off, but the logo shines through when on.




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