神相似!苹果新闻应用图标撞脸Dota2!

It's not unusual for Dota 2 fanatics like myself to perceive the game's logo in innocuous everyday objects, but when it comes to the new Apple News logo, I think even laypeople will have to agree that it bears a striking resemblance.

对于像我这样的Dota 2发烧友来说，在日常生活中看到这款游戏的图标可说非比寻常。不过在见到了苹果新闻的新图标之后，我想即使是外行人都会觉得二者确实惊人的相似。

Both marks feature a square bisected by a diagonal line descending from left to right. Both have a pair of rough triangles filling the open corners. Both are red!

这两个图标的外观都为正方形，中间是一条由左至右的对角线，两侧空白部分各有一个三角形图案。还有，它们都是红色的！

Now, I'm not about to suggest that Apple copied Valve's global sensation of a video game. As I say, those of us who play Dota are stupidly passionate about it and we'd notice an infraction of this kind pretty much instantly. Much more likely is that Apple simply didn't know.

我的意思不是苹果抄袭了维尔福软件公司出品的游戏的图标。正如我所说的，像我们这样无法自拔的Dota玩家，对如此违和的图案是及其敏感的。苹果公司对此可能毫不知情。

I guess 12 million active players each month, millions of Twitch viewers, and tournament prizes that overshadow pro sports aren't quite enough for Dota to register on Apple's radar. Seriously, Apple works on a scale of billions, not millions, and it's not like the company has ever shown itself particularly interested in PC gaming.

我认为，即便Dota 2每个月有1200万活跃玩家，Twitch上的观众达到数百万之多，比赛奖金令传统体育相形见绌，那恐怕也难入苹果的法眼。说真的，苹果公司的生意动辄便是数十亿，而不是数百万，并且苹果也从未对电脑游戏表现出特别的兴趣。

The inspiration for the two logos is rather divergent. Apple's News app is going for a stylized "N" whereas the Dota 2 mark is a representation of the one and only map on which the game is played: the diagonal represents the river splitting the Dire and Radiant sections and the corner elements are the bases that each team has to defend (the "Ancients" in the original Defense of the Ancients game title).

两个图标的设计灵感可谓截然不同。苹果新闻的图标代表大写字母“N”，而Dota 2的图标代表游戏地图：中间的对角线其实是天灾军团和近卫军团的分界河，角落里的图案则代表双方各自的基地（Dota1中的字母A代表上古遗迹）。