is gnome meant to be read as ‘genome’?

If we’re being pedantic, yes 🙂

I am not a programmer by any means but I know enough to know they did their research.

Except Tyrell called it “nome” instead of “g’nome” and I’m pretty sure TOR exit nodes can only see unencrypted data and the entry node can only see who sent it.

Yeah Apple’s marketing is incredible

Guess that depends on what your goal is. Are you doing it for fun? Or for money? If it’s the latter it’s all in the marketing.