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Apple should make their products edible as well.

'Apple' was a metaphor to Newton. 'Open'AI was meant as a promise; one that they've since broke both to some of their founders as well to the general populace. Reminding people of that broken promise doesn't seem that wild.

> 'Apple' was a metaphor to Newton

“Apple” was a non-intimidating name that would appear early in the phone book. It had nothing to do with Newton, that logo came after the name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.

> According to Wozniak, Jobs proposed the name “Apple Computer” when he had just come back from Robert Friedland's All-One Farm in Oregon. Jobs told Walter Isaacson that he was "on one of my fruitarian diets," when he conceived of the name and thought "it sounded fun, spirited and not intimidating ... plus, it would get us ahead of Atari in the phone book."

Either way, it wasn't intended to be a promise to the public to be held to the same way as OpenAI's name was.

Yes, agreed. Sorry, I lost track of the important bit there.

Some of the earliest Apple adverts make reference to the Garden of Eden, rather than Newton.

Plus we all know the Beatles had that company name first.

Pretty sure that was Blackberry's downfall

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