Why Apple Is Called Apple?

Who named Apple? Steve Jobs of course! The story behind the naming of the company has been revealed in Steve Jobs’ official biography by Walter Isaacson, and reflects Steve’s early vagabonding years when he ventured north from California and into the state of Oregon.

According to excerpts from the WSJ and AP, after some time spent working on apple orchards in that state, he was in the midst of a “fruitarian diet” and thought the simple name was “fun, spirited, and not
intimidating“, the rest, of course, is history.

Apple’s original logo 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.

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 can be typed on the Mac by hitting Shift+Option+K )

Why Apple Is Called Apple

Steve Jobs said “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product”. The authorized biography will be on sale on Monday but as always, some site gets it earlier.

It was called Apple during one of his fruitarian diets, official biography of Jobs reveals:

On the naming of Apple, he said he was “on one of my fruitarian diets.” He said he had just come back from an apple farm, and thought the name sounded “fun, spirited and not intimidating.”

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak mentioned a similar story about the companies name history in an interview from 2010:

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