There have been countless rumors as to how the company Apple Inc. received the name, "Apple". All center around Steve Jobs and his ideas or random thoughts. One of the rumors consists of having Steve Jobs being on an all-fruit diet at the time, and so he found the name Apple to be fitting. Other stories are those where the company members were spitballing different names, and none of them satisfied Steve Jobs.
However, he ended up choosing the name Apple because he - as was rumored - was on a fruit diet in an apple orchard. It was a simple name that was aesthetically pleasing to the ear and eye, so he went with it. However, seeing as the Beatles were also using this name for their record labels, there was a legal issue. Steve Jobs went to court and paid the Beatles over 25 million dollars for the rights, and thus Apple was born.
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