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> Not sure what to make of it. Apple decided to assign to a Unicode character their logo. Does anyone have context?

Might be for compatibility with MacRoman, which also had such a character.

In firefow it's a w with two dots over it. Is it just some unicode point that is unstandardized, and so overloaded somewhere with the Apple logo?

My Firefox renders it as an apple with a bite taken out of it. Probably depends on your font.

Chrome Mac renders it correctly.

Since it's a character in Unicode's "private use area," its correct rendering is unspecified. (That code point's "use and interpretation may be determined by private agreement among cooperating users" according to the Unicode standard.)

Correct as in "as the original poster intended", not as in "as the spec specifies".