Geek Posted October 21, 2011 Posted October 21, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/apple-on-tree.jpg" alt="Why Apple is called Apple" title="Why Apple is called Apple" width="619" height="328" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22802" /></p> <p>Who named Apple? Steve Jobs of course! The story behind the naming of the company has been revealed in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451648537/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=oxd-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=1451648537">Steve Jobs’ official biography</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=oxd-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1451648537&camp=217145&creative=399373" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> by Walter Isaacson, and reflects Steve’s early vagabonding years when he ventured north from California and into the state of Oregon. </p> <p>According to excerpts from the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204618704576643511455556744.html">WSJ</a> and AP, after some time spent working on apple orchards in that state, he was in the midst of a “<em>fruitarian diet</em>” and thought the simple name was “<em>fun, spirited, and not intimidating</em>“, the rest, of course, is history.</p> <p><span id="more-22793"></span> <img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/original-apple-logo.jpg" alt="Original Apple Logo" title="original-apple-logo" width="206" height="300" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22800" /></p> <p>Apple’s <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/12/15/the-original-apple-logo/">original logo</a> showed famous physicist Isaac Newton sitting under an Apple tree. This is an obvious reference to Newtons theory of gravitation, but now in light of the companies naming history, seems to give that apple tree a dual meaning.</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/rainbow-apple-logo.jpg" alt="Rainbow Apple logo" title="rainbow-apple-logo" width="300" height="347" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22794" /></p> <p>The Apple logo was then changed to the rainbow variation shown above, which lasted for many years until the color was removed to the current incarnation of a minimalist black or white silhouette in the early 2000′s (which <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2009/11/06/how-to-type-the-apple-logo/">can be typed</a> on the Mac by hitting Shift+Option+K )</p> <p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/black-apple-logo.png" alt="Black Apple logo" title="black-apple-logo" width="250" height="300" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-22795" /></p> <p>Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak mentioned a similar story about the companies name history in an interview from 2010: <!--more--> <iframe width="610" height="340" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mFdX29mVrxA?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>[ Apple on tree image from <a href=" https://live.staticflickr.com/3198/2794331424_5d4a28b186_b.jpg Garfield on Flickr</a> ]</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HtBysZqhQSNm_PcFowGJUuTUR44/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HtBysZqhQSNm_PcFowGJUuTUR44/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HtBysZqhQSNm_PcFowGJUuTUR44/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HtBysZqhQSNm_PcFowGJUuTUR44/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=jSCdLd1DJzI:lXZOnkc869c:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=jSCdLd1DJzI:lXZOnkc869c:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=jSCdLd1DJzI:lXZOnkc869c:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=jSCdLd1DJzI:lXZOnkc869c:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=jSCdLd1DJzI:lXZOnkc869c:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=jSCdLd1DJzI:lXZOnkc869c:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=jSCdLd1DJzI:lXZOnkc869c:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/jSCdLd1DJzI" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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