Cupertino

Definitions

1. A city in Santa Clara County, California, United States.
2. An incorrect spellchecking suggestion due to the Cupertino effect.
   informal, uncommon
3. Apple Inc.
   metonymically

Equivalents

Examples

“A major difference between Apple and other companies in bringing AI to the masses is that Cupertino is more open⟳ to partnerships—such as the one it has with OpenAI. The idea is that Apple will combine⟳ its own⟳ machine learning models with generative AI technologies from partners to power features within Apple Intelligence.”

“Sure enough, there are dozens of Cupertinos to be found in online documents from the UN, EU, NATO, and other international organizations.”

“Cupertinos can also be a serious business. Consider⟳ the case in 2012 of a school in the state of Georgia which was evacuated after a text message reading ‘gunman be at west hall today’ was reported to police.”

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