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 Computer circuitry can be name of the Apple Company was nothing destroyed by static electricity, it fancy. is so mild for humans that they It was named after the fruit. But at least it don't even feel it. was not a typo error like in Google, whose  The Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra original name was Googol and a student chip has maximum numbers of mistook the name and spelled it wrong transistors on it, approx. 222 during its registration. Apple found its first million of them. computer on April 1,1976.  KonradZuse, has the credit of creating world's first computer known as the Z1 in 1936. Three years later in the year 1939, was LOGO ORGIN: when the first fully functioning The very first Apple logo featured Sir electro-mechanical Isaac Newton sitting under a tree, with an computer, known as Z2 was developed. SHRIDHA apple about to hit his head. It was named after the fruit. But at least it was not a typo error like in Google, whose original name was Googol and a student mistook the name and spelled it wrong during its APPLE FACTS registration.There's the idea that, it is a tribute to mathematician Alan Turing, who committed suicide by taking a bite of an apple laced with cyanide. Rob Janoff, designer of Apple's iconic logo in an interview said I bought a bunch of apples, put them in a bowl and drew them for a week or so to simplify the shape. The bite is about scale and the common experience of biting into an apple. NAME ORGIN: Steve Jobs worked summer jobs at a It was a happy accident that byte is a computer term, and there's no truth to biting from the fruit of knowledge symbolism myths! California apple farm. He also liked the Beatle and their label, Apple Records. The DATUM’13 Page 17