How Tech Companies Got Their Name


Apple Computers





The first slogan of this company was "Bite into an Apple", while its more famous slogan is "Think Different". Probably thinking differently, the founder, Steve Jobs, named this company "Apple Computers" while he was driving along with Steve Wozniak between Palo Alto and Los Altos. Jobs and his friends used to work on a community farm cultivating apples while he was working in the Bay Area of San Francisco. Jobs was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if his colleagues didn't suggest a better name. As you can guess, they didn't come up with anything better and the rest is history. Other theories are that Jobs wanted his company to feature before Atari in the phone book, while yet another suggestion is that it was a tribute to Apple Records, which was the music label of the Beatles.
  
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(21) Comments
foley
,michigan, on Oct 21, 2009 09:29 AM
hmmm? try again
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Rakesh Gupta
,Bergenfield, on Oct 17, 2009 10:54 PM
Why can't I share this article with my facebook friends:(
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pcgamer
,pccity, on Oct 16, 2009 11:47 AM
good and informative article
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vishwanath
,chennai, on Oct 15, 2009 10:07 PM
have a look at this
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foley
,michigan, on Oct 16, 2009 08:41 AM
we will have a look, but first you must tell us at what? u left it blank, dumbo
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Chauhan
,Mumbai, on Oct 14, 2009 07:20 PM
You've forgotten one more company......TECHTREE! Obviously you guys wanted to experiment planting TECHNOLOGICAL TREES, I suppose?
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Jayesh Limaye
,Tech Labs, on Oct 14, 2009 10:10 PM
lol, something like that :-)
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D.Kumar
,Bangalore, on Oct 14, 2009 04:38 PM
WOW Good POST :) Something covered differently compare with other articles posted.
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Rams
,Chennai, on Oct 13, 2009 12:04 PM
Techtree deleted my comment posted yesterday.. i want to know y. What i said was correct did i abuse someone in the comment? Please care to explain. Steve Jobs named the company Apple to come first before "Atari" in alphabetic order.... marketing feat. Read iCON book about Steve jobs, you will come to know moron.
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sendhil
,chennai, on Oct 13, 2009 02:38 PM
open google and search "techtree how tech companies got their names" and you will see that there are actually two links for this article. one article has your earlier comment. very strange that this article exists with the same content at two different locations, but in different formats
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motherfu
,cker, on Oct 14, 2009 12:33 AM
bark bark dog, haha haha. die biatch
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modifii
,Dmn, on Oct 13, 2009 09:32 PM
very interesting!!!! dear techtree, please provide some articles like this so that we can improve our knowledge !!!!!! by Anonymous, hyd, on Oct 12, 2009 01:24 PM Well, Steve jobs named Apple not because his favorite fruit. Atari was the well established when Steve started the company. So, Jobs named his company Apple to be in first place of the address books of customers (Apple comes first before Atari in alphabetical order). Thats an marketing feat. by Rams, Chennai, on Oct 12, 2009 12:59 PM Very interesting, good work. by modifii, Dmn, on Oct 12, 2009 12:53 PM
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deepak gupta
,ettimadai, on Oct 12, 2009 06:54 PM
i actually enjoyed the piece a lot. the stories behind the origins are interesting and it was nice to get them all in one place
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abhijeet
,chitradurga, on Oct 13, 2009 09:09 PM
me too!!!
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rahul
,delhi, on Oct 13, 2009 05:54 PM
hi
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Sakiv
,Bangalore, on Oct 13, 2009 01:38 PM
I guess techtree is too late to post this article. Because everybody might have received same information in email form. Never mind good try....
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Ayan Debnath
,Kolkata, on Oct 13, 2009 09:48 AM
I like it :)
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Anonymous
,AHMD, on Oct 13, 2009 08:48 AM
is it joke????????????
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Jayaraj
,Chennai, on Oct 13, 2009 08:23 AM
Great info...Keep it up & innovative
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Yog Raj
,Delhi, on Oct 12, 2009 04:28 PM
Not a new thing or review, just copied from web, we don't expect such creep from Techtree.
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mahesh
,mumbai, on Oct 13, 2009 12:26 AM
oh yeah mister know-it-all. try finding all in one place. i will rather encourage techtree to print more such articles as they are so uncommon and very interesting
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