Retro Rainbow Apple Logo Makes Your iPad Less Austere

John Brownlee ()

Retro Rainbow Apple Logo Makes Your iPad Less Austere

Machine-carved unibody aluminum is fine and all, but sometimes I miss the less austere Apple aesthetic: the cheery white plastic, the GLBT-friendliness of the rainbow logo. For just $3.50, you can retro your iPad up with this wonderful retro logo decal for the iPad.

As Charlie Sorrel over at Wired notes: “If Apple was in any way nostalgia-minded, it should include these stickers in the boxes of its products instead of those awful, thin white stickers that we throw away by their thousands every day.” Amen to that.

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John BrownleeJohn Brownlee is news editor here at Cult of Mac, and has also written about a lot of things for a lot of different places, including Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, AMC, Geek and the Consumerist. He lives in Cambridge with his charming inamorata and a tiny budgerigar punningly christened after Nabokov's most famous pervert. You can follow him here on Twitter.

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  • http://www.haztea.com Tyson

    I don’t think the white stickers are awful!

    I stick them on non-Apple products belonging to my friends to piss them off.

  • Ellen Carr

    I have a bunch of these stickers from past computer purchases and was planning to do the same when my iPad arrives this month.

  • Ryan

    @Tyson I need to start doing that! Some of my friends hate Macs!

    I love that iPad mod. The white Apple logo is a lot more modern but not as interesting as the 70s logo.

  • Romeo

    Who throws the white stickers away????
    Please, give it me hahahahaaha

  • L_J

    A great idea but i keep my i pad in a case about 98% of the time. I may just order one any way/

  • http://colormepink.com Christine

    I put the stickers in my back car window because I think it’s the most obnoxious thing I can do. I’d love rainbow ones though.

  • http://wommy47.wordpress.com Tommy Schafer

    I agree I always stick the white stickers on my car, and when my friends don’t want them,m I take them from them :) I put them on non apple branded things I own like Seagate and LaCie Drives as well as my external Westinghouse monitor and calculators. They’re great for notebooks too. its really sad how many I have in fact… Ive got about 8 stowed away for future purchases.

  • Jaime Sommers

    The ones mentioned in the article above are all sold out on Etsy unfortunately.  But I found some similar ones: http://www.etsy.com/shop/BionicBeauty  After just emailing with the shop owner she stated that she’s planning to release an opaque version for the iPad and other devices later this week. Woo hoo!

    I’ve got to agree with author, John Brownlee.  The rainbow decals from Mac where much more appealing.  But at least there are some creative people still able to give us the option. :)