Fruit Computers

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Fruit Building in Port Tudor

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Fruit Computers is a computer manufacturer company in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. According to their warehouse in Port Tudor, Fruit Computers was established in 1975. The company is a parody of Apple computers. Their logo bears a resemblance to male genitals.

In GTA LCS, there is FruitOS user group "Fruits" (a slang word for 'gay people') that has a holy-war with TOS use group. This is a reference to real-life Windows/Linux holy-wars.

In GTA VCS, there is a computer Fruit LC, a parody of Apple III computer, however the name is inspired by the Apple Macintosh LC computer.

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The FruitOS desktop. The top taskbar is similar to that found in Mac OS X

In GTA IV, there is a Fruit Cocoon (parody of Mac Mini) and iFruit (parody of iPhone) advertised on their website. Also note that the interface of GTA IV browser has some references to Safari. There is a Fruit Computers building in Port Tudor, Alderney, however the building seems to be abandoned, as the logo is faded and similar to the previous multi-coloured Apple logo. Fruit computers can also be seen advertised in various computer shops throughout the game.

In Chinatown Wars, the player gets a Fruit Laptop in every safehouse (always pink). The player is not able to go on the internet, but it features multiplayer functions and e-mail. Also, many characters, including Wu Lee have Fruitcomputers.com email accounts.