{"id":821,"date":"2018-04-02T21:55:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T21:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goshbuzz.com\/?p=821"},"modified":"2018-09-28T09:50:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T04:20:40","slug":"how-apple-was-named-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/how-apple-was-named-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"How &#8216;Apple&#8217; was named &#8216;Apple&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You must have used an Apple product except if you are living under mountain rock! Are you curious about how &#8220;Apple&#8221; was named &#8220;Apple&#8221;? Well, way back in 1976, when Steve &amp; Wozniak decided to start a company to do the computer business, they absolutely needed a business name. Coming back from Apple (<em>fruit!<\/em>) farm together, they came up with options like &#8220;<em>Matrix<\/em>&#8220;, &#8220;<em>Executek<\/em>&#8220;, &#8220;<em>Personal Computers Inc<\/em>&#8221; &amp; finally Steve proposed &#8220;<em><strong>Apple Computer<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; justifying that it was <em><strong>fruitarian<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>sounded fun<\/strong><\/em> &amp; it would appear ahead of &#8220;<em>Atari<\/em>&#8221; (Consumer Electronics &amp; Video Game company) in the phone book! Steve told Wozniak that if they didn&#8217;t come up with a better name by next afternoon, they will stick to &#8220;<em>Apple<\/em>&#8220;. Rest is known, right?<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2JfOhcC\">Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You must have used an Apple product except if you are living under mountain rock! Are you curious about how &#8220;Apple&#8221; was named &#8220;Apple&#8221;? Well, way back in 1976, when Steve &amp; Wozniak decided to start a company to do the computer business, they absolutely needed a business name. Coming back from Apple (fruit!) farm&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,162,46,31,4,12,22,13,19,3,5],"tags":[272,11,287,56,188,117,58,124,288,289,290,291,125,247,285,101,14,28,126,139,191],"thb-sponsors":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/How-Apple-was-named-Apple-WinfiY-crunch.png?fit=576%2C324&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9V90w-df","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}