Steve Jobs had just finished his idea for his own brand of computer and now needed a name, and while looking around his kitchen, he saw a hunk of rotting meat, and an apple, considering that "Rotting Hunk of Steak" Did not have a nice ring to it, he chose the apple...
(Also, as an FYI people generaly want to keep forum games in the forum games section, se be prepared fora legion of user's telling you so.)