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Q: what does "i" stand for in apple products

first of all
i need to know what does "i" stand for in many apple products such ipad, ipod, itunes .. etc

is it true it is stand for "internet" or other

Thnak you

Dell, Windows XP

Posted on Oct 31, 2010 5:15 AM

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  • by weeowey,

    weeowey weeowey Mar 27, 2013 11:51 AM in response to weeowey
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    Mar 27, 2013 11:51 AM in response to weeowey

    OH, And I am going to ask one of the "site chat" people on the apple store about this. I will come back with their answer.

  • by rabbitjetta,

    rabbitjetta rabbitjetta Mar 27, 2013 11:51 AM in response to alhoussainy
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    Mar 27, 2013 11:51 AM in response to alhoussainy

    I know when the first imac came out it was for internet internet mac. So  internet book, internet phone, internet pad. that is what i am assuming for the newer devices.

  • by GrumpyGator,

    GrumpyGator GrumpyGator Mar 27, 2013 11:52 AM in response to alhoussainy
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    Mar 27, 2013 11:52 AM in response to alhoussainy

    i is an imaginary number

  • by weeowey,

    weeowey weeowey Mar 27, 2013 12:16 PM in response to weeowey
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    Mar 27, 2013 12:16 PM in response to weeowey

    So I have asked the  store specialists about this, and this is the conversation (blue is me. I was chatting to an Apple specialist called Emer. she is the colour that this is highlighted with):

     

    • Hello.

    • This may be a hard question for you to answer, but:

    • What does the 'i' before the name of apple products stand for?

    • y'know: iPad, iPod, iPhone, etc...

    • Sure..

    • So this is a question I have aced before but there is no real answer..it's open to interpretation..

    • Some people think it's for innovation, some people think it's for "I" being mine...

    • But the simple answer is I don't know..what do you think it stands for?

    • I think it stood for "idiot" as jobs said that in one of his keynotes.
    • Oh right..he also said the following:

    • "the "i" stood for "Internet, Individual, Instruct, Inform, and Inspire"

    • So it means a lot of things I suppose!

    <Chat ends>


  • by stedman1,

    stedman1 stedman1 Mar 27, 2013 12:17 PM in response to weeowey
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    Mar 27, 2013 12:17 PM in response to weeowey

    Well, there you have it.

  • by Bernieb2812,

    Bernieb2812 Bernieb2812 Jul 8, 2013 10:07 PM in response to alhoussainy
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    Jul 8, 2013 10:07 PM in response to alhoussainy

    The "i" in front of Apple products such as iMac, iPod, and iPhone is in deference to Sir Jonathan Ive, Senior Vice President of Design at Apple.  Sir Ive has been leading design at Apple since 1996. It is a bit of an inside joke at Apple. 

  • by Chris CA,

    Chris CA Chris CA Jul 9, 2013 12:20 AM in response to Bernieb2812
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    Jul 9, 2013 12:20 AM in response to Bernieb2812

    Bernieb2812 wrote:

     

    The "i" in front of Apple products such as iMac, iPod, and iPhone is in deference to Sir Jonathan Ive, S

    except that it's not.

  • by vleonel209,

    vleonel209 vleonel209 Sep 19, 2013 6:51 PM in response to Chris CA
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    Sep 19, 2013 6:51 PM in response to Chris CA

    Well according to Ken Segall the man who proclaims to have named the iMac, the first product with the "i" attached to the name, the "i" stands for internet. But in a more personal sense I agree with Bernieb2812, because in an interview, Ken himself says, in his first sight of the iMac (which was disgned by Sir Jonathan Ive), "We were guarded. We were being polite, but we were really thinking, Jesus do they know what they are doing? it was so radical." Now by my experience (currently in college, about to major in busines administration) every great product has a subliminal message... with that said they would have had to come up with an excuse for such name, and what better concordance with the "Think Different Campaign" than "its stands for internet, because it makes the connecting to the internet process easier, no third step". And of course later Steve Jobs would say it stands for individual, instruct, inform, and inspire, all to top off the "Think Different Campaign".

  • by Chriskdiamond,

    Chriskdiamond Chriskdiamond Sep 22, 2013 5:36 AM in response to alhoussainy
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    Sep 22, 2013 5:36 AM in response to alhoussainy

    "i" stands for "intuitive".  I watched the movie Jobs and this was the word that sprung out.  Steve Jobs wanted Apple's products all to be intuitive.  The products needed to be ready to do things the consumer hadn't thought of doing yet.  That's what makes the ipod, ipad, iphone and Macs so beautifully and awesome.

     

    Thanx Steve Jobs

     

    Message was edited by: Chriskdiamond

  • by Nickies430,

    Nickies430 Nickies430 Dec 21, 2013 11:03 PM in response to alhoussainy
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    Dec 21, 2013 11:03 PM in response to alhoussainy

    According to the biography of Steve Jobs: mid-page 338 uses 'Internet' and 'integration' intertagably when describing the 'i' in 'i'-apple anything.

     

    I would conclude it is mainly an integration... of the Internet and everything 'intuitive' about the devices.

     

    Why isn't there a secure answer to this yet?

  • by Chris CA,

    Chris CA Chris CA Dec 22, 2013 9:28 AM in response to Nickies430
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    Dec 22, 2013 9:28 AM in response to Nickies430

    Nickies430 wrote:

     

     

     

    Why isn't there a secure answer to this yet?

    Because there is no specific, solid answer/definition.

  • by Nickies430,

    Nickies430 Nickies430 Dec 22, 2013 5:47 PM in response to Chris CA
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    Dec 22, 2013 5:47 PM in response to Chris CA

    I agree... I just think it's interesting that we are all just so curious

  • by Wiggles214,

    Wiggles214 Wiggles214 Sep 27, 2014 1:40 AM in response to Julian Wright
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    Sep 27, 2014 1:40 AM in response to Julian Wright

    Ken says that the "i" stands for "Internet",[6] but also represents the product as a personal and revolutionary device ('i' for "individuality" and "innovation").

     

    as expressed to search from Wikipedia,  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac#History  Under the History portion of the report.

  • by JonCarp,

    JonCarp JonCarp Feb 5, 2015 10:51 AM in response to alhoussainy
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    Feb 5, 2015 10:51 AM in response to alhoussainy

    I had heard years ago that the "I" was a reference to Jonathan Ive.  So Ive's version of the Mac, quietly giving him credit for all the work he did in its creation.

  • by iSteffan,

    iSteffan iSteffan Mar 3, 2015 7:34 AM in response to alhoussainy
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    Mar 3, 2015 7:34 AM in response to alhoussainy

    According to the Special event in 1998, the "i" stands for internet, as mentioned before, but also individual, instruct, inform and inspire.

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