Why Apple and not Orange?

I was more inquistive in knowing the reasoning behind the naming convention of Apple.

Here goes the interesting story from what I read...

The most admirable individualist silicon valley enterprenuer who shows up in his black turtle neck during all of his company's product release was involved with his group of friends in running a community farm in Oregan. He was doing it part time while working in the Bay Area of San Francisco. He suggested the name "Apple Computers" to his other co founder Steve Wozniak.

Wozniak said this in the book about the name of the company:

He (Jobs) 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.’

They also tried other names like the Executex and Matrix Electronics, but they didn’t fancy it as much as Apple Computers.

Later they dropped the computers part and name it Apple. That's how the name was born.

Think Different!!!







The coining of yet another famous name that we see in our day to day's life "Google" is again interesting.

In 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin were trying to give a name for their search engine. They tried it with "Backrub" for its analysis of the web's "back links".

Larry was studying at the stranford University sharing the office in room 360 with other graduates including Sean Anderson.

while discussing several names, Sean came up with the word "Googolplex" which means 10 to the power of 100. It is a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros. Since Google used immense data for indexing his justification got Larry's nod however he did not like plex added and they finally arrived at Googol. When Sean tried to check if Googol was already registered, he unkowingly typed Google and the domain was available.

Larry and Sergey liked the name Google and finally registered it that way.

That's the story of how Googol became Google.