Amelio, Raskin, Gassée On What Apple Means

John Paczkowski writes: "SiliconValley.com is currently hosting the third in its series of online Roundtable discussions. Our topic is 'Does Apple Matter?' and as you might imagine conversation has been quite spirited. Among our guests: Jean-Louis Gassée -- chairman and CEO of Be and former head of head of product development at Apple, former Apple chairman and CEO Gil Amelio, former Macintosh project manager Jef Raskin, and Mark Gonzales, a former senior Apple product manager who worked on the company's 'Star Trek' project. You'll find the introduction to the event here and the discussion itself here."

Of course they do

[odenshaw]

If Apple wasn't around who would the other companies copy?

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Yes, what does apple mean?

[Monkeyman334]

Main Entry: apple
Pronunciation: 'a-p&l
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English appel, from Old English æppel; akin to Old High German apful apple, Old Irish ubull, Old Church Slavonic abluko
Date: before 12th century
1 : the fleshy usually rounded and red, yellow, or green edible pome fruit of a tree (genus Malus) of the rose family; also : an apple tree
2 : a fruit or other vegetable production suggestive of an apple -- compare OAK APPLE
- apple of one's eye : one that is highly cherished <his daughter is the apple of his eye>

Welp, doesn't take a genius to figure out this one!