Funny thing is that the core is the part of the apple that people generally don't eat. As for the naming, I've always found it fairly standard for internal pro

Funny thing is that the core is the part of the apple that people generally don't eat. As for the naming, I've always found it fairly standard for internal productized libraries. The library/product as a whole consists of all the possible pieces you can link with, but the core is the only mandatory part.