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by randomNumber7 485 days ago
When you name a variable "apple" it will directly inform apple and you get a warning for violating their brand.
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Talk about 'in perpetuity, for all time, throughout the universe' levels of legal due diligence!
A workaround is to set the corporation name to apple corps, apple records.
Is that sarcasm? I wouldn't put it past them to do that.

If it isn't, could you provide a source?

Sadly its sarcasm.

What is not sarcasm, that I once lived in a region in germany where apples are grown. The local government had a project where they created some hiking trails. They wanted to call one of those "Apfelweg" (apple street or s.th. in englisch), because you know, there are apple trees everywhere. They had been sued by apple and had to rename it. Real.

Have they actually renamed it? Is it this project? https://apfelroute.nrw/
Oh but it's by far not the single instance of fruit related abuse: https://www.popsci.com/technology/apple-swiss-trademark/ No matter how much you like their products, Apple is just another corporation playing the corporate abuse card.
Reminds me of the café "Apfelkind" in Bonn: https://www.zdnet.de/88171481/apple-beendet-markenstreit-mit...