what does "i" stand for in apple products

deggie wrote:

I see a nor'easter is supposed to head your way Wednesday. You going to be all right?

Thanks for your concern.

The last that I saw on the weather reports, it won't be that bad. In any event, I didn't have any structural damage from Sandy so I'll be OK. I feel for those at the "shore" (near the ocean). Even a drizzle will be catastrophic for them.

Are you kidding me? I already posted what the 'i' stood for. Steve showed it in a slide when he first introduced the first iProduct, the iMac. The 'i' stood for five words.

internet

individual

instruct

inform

inspire

Are you kidding ME? Those are terms INCLUDED in the meaning, but are not the finite answer.

Apple will continue to make better products in the future, so the ones we have at any given point in time are just "interim" products. That's why when you buy an iPad 2 in March of 2012, it's just an interim solution and will be obsolete when the next generation iPad is out in November.

The word "Internet" is a noun. because the Internet is a thing, therefore, it needs to have a capital 'I'. So, the meaning of the 'i' isn't really 'internet', because the 'I' would have to be a capital each time. also, a certain Steve Jobs, (I think) who named the iPod, was reminded of the movie ' 2001: Space Odyssey' or something, which has the phrase: "Open the Pod Bay doors". You can go ahead and ask Siri that phrase. "Open the Pod Bay Doors" or "Do you know HAL-9000?". And yes, they are pretty cool easter eggs.

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.

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".

"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

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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?

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.

istocko wrote:

"i" does mean

Let's imagine impossible internationally interconnection internet informations

it is "iA" so i does mean - see up and A does mean Applitopia

That's all,

Thread can be to closed.

No, it stands for "I think it would be really funny if I can make people keep guessing long after I'm dead".

Actually, it all started one Christmas Eve back in 1997.....

Steve and the gang had just put in a long day creating their first (what would be) i-Item. But they were all totally exhausted after pouring out all of their creative energy on the most cutting-edge machine that had ever been created up to that time, and they were stumped as to what to call this newest offering from Apple.

That Christmas Eve, they decided to take the night off and watch a movie adaptation of that most iconic Christmas story (and the grandfather of all the best Christmas stories ever) - Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". They put the DVD in (of course they had a DVD player in 1997 - these guys were techno-geeks, after all), and all got cozy and comfortable, trying to put the niggling problem of a name for their new colorful Bondi Blue gumdrop-shaped marvel behind them. They were pretty sure that the "Macintosh" name, or some version of it would be a part of the new addition's name, but they wanted something special and catchy to go with it to celebrate their incredible and imaginative innovation with it's intuitive software and ingenious shape.

The movie version of "A Christmas Carol" that they watched that night was the Alastair Sim version made in 1951 - in black & white, and called "Scrooge". While watching the travels of Scrooge with the Ghost of Christmas Past, they saw a scene that would change the history of Apple and provide a naming convention that is still used today.

It's the scene where Scrooge's intended, Alice, is "releasing Scrooge" from their engagement. She tells him that he has changed. That his ambition and constant striving for wealth has made him a different man. At this, Scrooge protests: "But I, I, I, I, haven't changed toward you!" he says. The scene ends with Alice giving Scrooge back the ring he gave her, Scrooge leaving the room in a huff, and Alice breaking down in tears.

But, for the team, their interest in the film ended with Scrooge's protest.

"That's it", they all cried in unison, dancing a giddy, celebratory, romp around the room. "I, I, I, I....it's perfect! That's the very thing we need to make this the most incredible, innovative, interesting, introduction of what will be the most iconic machine ever imagined by i-Man!!! WE WILL CALL OUR NEW INVENTION THE iMAC!"

So, that's how the "i" came into being - a gift bestowed one Christmas Eve upon the boys of Apple via an i-daptation of one of the most revered Christmas Stories of all time, written by a man as inventive, imaginative, intelligent, and idolized as Apple's own Steve Jobs.

The End.

😁

Well, one would have to be familiar with that particular movie adaptation. Although Dickens does have the same line in the actual story, it is the repeated "But I, I, I, I haven't changed toward you" that is burned in my brain, (annual tradition to watch as many versions of "A Christmas Carol" or "Scrooge" as possible, but the Alastair Sim one always gets watched), that caused me to make the connection.... It just came to me out of the i-onosphere.... 😝

GB

gracefrombridgewater wrote:

As an elementary teacher and technology teacher, my students always ask me. So I will let them know it means internet.

You can tell them that. It doesn't mean it's true. It would be more interesting if you had them come up with things they thought it might mean.

gracefrombridgewater wrote:

As an elementary teacher and technology teacher, my students always ask me. So I will let them know it means internet.

Thank you

The “i” in iPod does not mean internet as they were not internet capable.