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Susan Kare, GUI Icon Design Pioneer (and What the Mac's Command Key Actually Represents)
Apparently, it was originally meant to be the Apple logo, but Steve Jobs shot that idea down and forced the UI designers to come up with an alternative. "Interesting attraction" was about as close to "keystroke for a command" as they could find; my best guess would be the difference between "go here to see something cool" and "do this to see something cool happen".
I imagine that's also why, up until relatively recently, the Command key had an Apple logo on it. Just a vestige of an old compromise.
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Swedish_Campground.txt
I think what nym is trying to say is: it's very well that the symbol represents "a stylised castle seen from above", but what does a Swedish castle have to do with the command key on a mac? WHY was the representation of an interesting sightseeing destination in Sweden chosen? What's the connection? I'd like to know...
yeah it's pretty unclear... maybe it stands for, i dunno, "a stylised castle seen from above"
but thats just a guess
<\sarcasm>
disapointing post.
It still is. I thought, until now, that the similarity was a coincidence.