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The symbol i stands for "imaginary unit" and it is extensively used in mathematics, specifically complex analysis. The number z=x+iy is thus a complex number being composed of a real part x and an imaginary part y.
In this context, thus, iPhone is a purely imaginary entity (a product in our context) whose imaginary part is "Phone". The same goes to other apple products.
The symbol i stands for "imaginary unit" and it is extensively used in mathematics, specifically complex analysis. The number z=x+iy is thus a complex number being composed of a real part x and an imaginary part y.
In this context, thus, iPhone is a purely imaginary entity (a product in our context) whose imaginary part is "Phone". The same goes to other apple products.
If you recall in the 1998 Apple Back on Track Keynote, while introducing the iMac, Steve showed a slide of what the "i" stood for; and it was,
internet
individual
instruct
inform
inspire
Don't you just love those posts when they just keep going on and on? =)
Yes, the 'i' May stand for any word that begins with the letter 'i'. so, Nobody is really sure. 🙂
The answer is "internet" ... Steve Jobs declared that on May 6, 1998 Keynote.
SonnLy wrote:
if "i" mean "internet", why iPod have letter "i" ??, cause iPod haven't internet acces
It doesn't really mean anything. Or, it can mean whatever someone wants at a particular time for a particular product.
Maybe if you look back to 1996 after Steve Jobs sold his OS "next" to apple for something like 400 million dollars, I beleive. He came back as what he refered to as "iCEO" at a keynote address the "i" meaning interim CEO. Its only speculation but I would have to say it was a clever little inside joke on his behalf, seeing how since his return he took the company from the brink of falling apart to one of the most valuable tech companies in the world. so now maybe thats his way of never letting certain people forget it. Thats my guess anyways.
WRWolf wrote:
Thanks for asking this question. It certainly prompted some fun answers especially towards the end of this thread. For my two sense may I suggest that the lower case is used for I as in "my". Works for me but no so much for earlier Macs.
Did you mean 'my two cents', because it makes no sense your way.
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?
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>
but apple did not announce officaly if "i" stand for "internet"
maybe another word such " intelligence" ?
I myself am 18 now and have been around apple products: ipod, imac, iphone etc, ever since I was 8. and honestly for the last 10 years I thought the "i" stood for interactive. It makes since, "interactive phone" , "interactive macintosh" ' "interactive portable audio device" (I know a is not in ipod but i dont know what the o stands for) I may be right but im probably not im just throwing my oppinion out there.
i in iPod stands for some thing personal, like it gives you a Sense that you own it or it make's the iPad, iPod, iMac, etc stand out in the market, How many people do you hear say "I will call them on my iPhone" instead of saying "I will call them on my phone" Apple has very cleverly branded there product name!!
Thanks for asking this question. It certainly prompted some fun answers especially towards the end of this thread. For my two sense may I suggest that the lower case is used for I as in "my". Works for me but no so much for earlier Macs.
Correct. In fact, his name was as I indicated - no period after the "S."
I can go further and add that "GE" does not stand for "General Electric." It did at one time but that was changed some time in the eighties.
what does "i" stand for in apple products
