It has to do with Steve being a satanist. Bite from the apple? And, the price of their first computer was 666. And you thought Gates was evil. Dammit, we're all doomed -- 'cept, maybe, the odd linux geek.
Sheesh... Matsu's up to his old trickery again! <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
The $666 was a joke. Steve Wozniak just picked that number because he thought repeating numbers looked cool. He had no idea there was a religious connotation until someone later pointed it out to him.
Steve Jobs used to work in an apple orchard. That's where the name Apple Computer came from. It's as simple as that.
Say what you will, but remeber when Steve cracked down on Anton LeVey for letting the cat out of the bag? Just like he craked the cat-o-nine-tails over ATI and workerbee for their lapses.
I heard (read, actually) that the Apple name was just a random name for the company that came about because Woz was eating an apple (probably caramelized) at a baseball game. The first logo was a large, complicated drawing of Sir Isaac under a tree, and then they later stole the Apple logo as we know it from a computer fair or something, off of a banner, IIRC. I think the name of the fair might have had "Byte" in it. But my memory sucks with details like that.
What I've heard is that the Steves where drive along on a country road, discussing what they would call their company, and one suggested Apple. They couldn't top it.
The first logo was a hand drawn picture of Newton under an apple tree, but it was illegible at small sizes so they came up with the Apple we all know and love today.
Apple's original logo was a pen and ink drawing of Sir Isaac Newton leaning against an apple tree with a portion of a William Wordsworth poem running around the border:
[quote]"Newton...a mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought...alone."<hr></blockquote>
The logo had "Apple Computer Co. on a ribbon around the image, and an apple hanging from the tree had a glow around it.
The logo was used for a short time but was uneasily reproduced at small sizes and Jobs felt that it was too "cerebral." So in 1977 Jobs instructed Rob Janov to come up with something better....the guy start with a b/w silhouette of an apple, but felt something was missing. Here is a quote from Janov:
[quote]I wanted to simplify the shape of an apple, and by taking a bite--a byte, right?--out of the side, it prevented the apple from looking like a cherry tomato."<hr></blockquote>
Credits: Apple Confidential. Thank God for Owen Linzmayer.
[EDIT: more on how name was came up with.]
[quote]According to Steve Wozniak, it was Steve Jobs who thought up the name for their new computer company one afternoon in early 1976 as the two drove along Highway 85 between Palo Alto and Los Altos. "Steve was still half involved with a group of friends who ran the commune-type All-One Farm in Oregon. And he would go up and work there for a few months before returning to the Bay Area. He had just come back from one of his trips and we were driving along and he said 'I've got a great name: Apple Computer.' Maybe he worked in apple trees. I didn't even ask. Maybe it had some other meaning to him. Maybe the idea just occurred based upon Apple Records He had been a musical person, like many technical people are. It might have sounded good partly because of that connotation. I thought instantly, 'We're going to have a lot of copyright problems.' But we didn't. Both of us tried to think of technical sounding mixtures of words, like Executek and Matrix Electronics, but after ten minutes of trying, we both realized we weren't going to beat Apple Computer."<hr></blockquote>
<strong>Steve Jobs used to work in an apple orchard. That's where the name Apple Computer came from. It's as simple as that.</strong><hr></blockquote>Was he wearing a Macintosh at the time then?
<strong>Steve Jobs used to work in an apple orchard. That's where the name Apple Computer came from. It's as simple as that.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Point me to your source if you will...and the inspiration might have been the commune, Apple Corps Records (made Beatles stuff.) Not suprisingly, Apple got into a trademark dispute with Apple Corps.
[quote]I heard (read, actually) that the Apple name was just a random name for the company that came about because Woz was eating an apple (probably caramelized)<hr></blockquote>
Actually they were driving down the Santa Monica highway, to be specific. As I recall they were not eating.
Point me to your source if you will...and the inspiration might have been the commune, Apple Corps Records (made Beatles stuff.) Not suprisingly, Apple got into a trademark dispute with Apple Corps.</strong><hr></blockquote>
[quote] Lisa was Woz's (or somebody's) daughter wasn't she? <hr></blockquote>
Jobs' illegite duaghter i think. (Can't remember Pirates of Sil' Valley so well). I know for certain that Macintosh came from the then leading apple (fruit) producer at the time, McIntosh.
jeez, for people who spend a lot of time at a place called AppleInsider you sure don't know your Apple trivia/history well <img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[Surprised]" />
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The $666 was a joke. Steve Wozniak just picked that number because he thought repeating numbers looked cool. He had no idea there was a religious connotation until someone later pointed it out to him.
Steve Jobs used to work in an apple orchard. That's where the name Apple Computer came from. It's as simple as that.
And it's not bite of the apple it's byte of the apple. geddit?
Seb, that guy under the tree was Issac Newton.
j/k
Wasn't the first Apple logo with the banner and the guy under the tree designed by Mike Makkula?
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<strong>Stop telling the story of how they named the Newton.
Poor Fran
The first logo was a hand drawn picture of Newton under an apple tree, but it was illegible at small sizes so they came up with the Apple we all know and love today.
[quote]"Newton...a mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought...alone."<hr></blockquote>
The logo had "Apple Computer Co. on a ribbon around the image, and an apple hanging from the tree had a glow around it.
The logo was used for a short time but was uneasily reproduced at small sizes and Jobs felt that it was too "cerebral." So in 1977 Jobs instructed Rob Janov to come up with something better....the guy start with a b/w silhouette of an apple, but felt something was missing. Here is a quote from Janov:
[quote]I wanted to simplify the shape of an apple, and by taking a bite--a byte, right?--out of the side, it prevented the apple from looking like a cherry tomato."<hr></blockquote>
Credits: Apple Confidential. Thank God for Owen Linzmayer.
[EDIT: more on how name was came up with.]
[quote]According to Steve Wozniak, it was Steve Jobs who thought up the name for their new computer company one afternoon in early 1976 as the two drove along Highway 85 between Palo Alto and Los Altos. "Steve was still half involved with a group of friends who ran the commune-type All-One Farm in Oregon. And he would go up and work there for a few months before returning to the Bay Area. He had just come back from one of his trips and we were driving along and he said 'I've got a great name: Apple Computer.' Maybe he worked in apple trees. I didn't even ask. Maybe it had some other meaning to him. Maybe the idea just occurred based upon Apple Records He had been a musical person, like many technical people are. It might have sounded good partly because of that connotation. I thought instantly, 'We're going to have a lot of copyright problems.' But we didn't. Both of us tried to think of technical sounding mixtures of words, like Executek and Matrix Electronics, but after ten minutes of trying, we both realized we weren't going to beat Apple Computer."<hr></blockquote>
Again thank you Apple Confidential.
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<strong>Steve Jobs used to work in an apple orchard. That's where the name Apple Computer came from. It's as simple as that.</strong><hr></blockquote>Was he wearing a Macintosh at the time then?
<strong>Steve Jobs used to work in an apple orchard. That's where the name Apple Computer came from. It's as simple as that.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Point me to your source if you will...and the inspiration might have been the commune, Apple Corps Records (made Beatles stuff.) Not suprisingly, Apple got into a trademark dispute with Apple Corps.
Actually they were driving down the Santa Monica highway, to be specific. As I recall they were not eating.
Wow, we really get deep into this stuff don't we?
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Point me to your source if you will...and the inspiration might have been the commune, Apple Corps Records (made Beatles stuff.) Not suprisingly, Apple got into a trademark dispute with Apple Corps.</strong><hr></blockquote>
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No, no Macintosh on then, but after all, he WAS sleeping with Lisa.
Jobs' illegite duaghter i think. (Can't remember Pirates of Sil' Valley so well). I know for certain that Macintosh came from the then leading apple (fruit) producer at the time, McIntosh.