what does "i" stand for in apple products

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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.

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>

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.

😝 How about injoyable

What does the "S" in "Harry S Truman" stand for?

Nothing.

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

Philly, I'm glad to see you had no damage from Sandy. I've been a bit absent from here lately, but I'll write you tomorrow.

So IPAD stand for Intelligent/Internet Personal Assistance Device?

It's actually not internet. In a keynote speech when Steve was Interim CEO, the slide showed iCEO.

It stands for Interim.

Amazing how this answer is nowhere to be found on the internet. 😎

i thing "i" stand for information.