Apple was founded in 1976. There was no idea of downloadable apps back then. From a Woz interview in 1984: "[Steve Jobs] was working from time to time in the

Apple was founded in 1976. There was no idea of downloadable apps back then. From a Woz interview in 1984: "[Steve Jobs] was working from time to time in the orchards up in Oregon. I thought that it might be because there were apples in the orchard or maybe just its fructarian nature. Maybe the word just happened to occur to him. In any case, we both tried to come up with better names but neither one of us could think of anything better after Apple was mentioned." https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1984-12/1984_12_BYTE_09-13_Communications#page/n463/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1984-12/1984_12_BYT...