Apple VS Apple

[pendragon]

According to a fairly lengthy article by Jef Raskin: http://mxmora.best.vwh.net/JefRaskin.html

“My primary role in this matter was to create the Macintosh project. I named it for my favorite kind of eatin' apple, the succulent McIntosh (I changed the spelling of the name to avoid potential conflict with McIntosh, the audio equipment manufacturer). There have been, as Horn points out, many inaccurate recountings of the early Mac history. The best I've seen (they guy did some heavy-duty research) is Owen Linzmeyer's "The Mac Bathroom Reader". My own history of the Mac (entitled "The Mac and Me") is currently being serialized in the Computer Historical Association of California's journal.”

Harv

[krissel]

This from the article by Jeff Raskin to which Harv linked:

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Glen Cole asks if my attempt to avoid trademark conflict wiht McIntosh audio equipment by spelling the computer "Macintosh" were successful. He correctly remembers that it was not. Apple even had to pay the raincoat manufacturer for use of the name, I have no idea why. Glen also asks how I feel about the nickname "Mac" for the product. Fine, we used it from the very beginning.

Funny, I had wondered about the raincoat name as well.

Looks like everyone got into the act.      

You know, makes me think that Apple should go after McDonalds for using the term Mac.

 

[Paddy]

Shhhh....don't give McDonalds any ideas!!! 'Fraid they got there first...

http://www.mcdonalds.com/corporate/info/hi...story/history3/

Honestly though...don't the Beatles and their heirs have ENOUGH money? This is ridiculous. McCartney was the 29th wealthiest person in Britain last year, with a personal fortune of over 700M pounds (that's over $1,600,000,000.00). Yoko has a similar fortune...

So much for "I don't care too much for money"!!!