Computer / software company founded in California, USA. There are various opinions about the origin of Apple 's company name when the first computer were sold by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak; Jobs was practicing fruit philosophy and had just returned from pruning work in an apple farm just before a meeting and decided to use the name of the fruit, it was a cheerful and fun name.
Apple showed up earlier than Atari (American video game company) on yellow page, etc.