This is ridiclous
They’ve used that exact same symbol since they first added an Ethernet port to their computers in the early 1990’s. It was one of the first mass-market computers with integrated Ethernet. It literally defined the standard when there was no standards body for such a thing.
They’ve used the same symbol since before we standardized on the RJ45 connector, or 10baseT. Back when ethernet was the wild west.
God I miss these abortions. The OG dongles.
Back when men were men, and ethernet cables were an inch thick and needed heavy equipment to use.
Is there a standardized symbol for Ethernet? The only one on the Wikipedia page for Ethernet is Apple’s.
https://openclipart.org/image/2400px/svg_to_png/137839/ethernet-connector.png
Is the one I’ve always seen for ages.
Is it standardized?
And honestly, it depicts a modern Ethernet network worse than the Apple icon does