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

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Posted on Oct 31, 2010 5:15 AM

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Posted on Oct 31, 2010 12:13 PM

Back in the day when the very first iMac was introduced, it was stated that the "i" was for "internet". Back then, it was hard to set computers up for an internet connection and the iMac was supposed make it very easy ("there's no step 3", to quote the ad from way back then).

But these days, I don't think it really stands for anything any more. People have come to associate an "iAnything" with Apple.

Why is that so important?
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Jun 18, 2015 10:32 PM in response to bobseufert

😁


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.... 😝


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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>

Jun 26, 2017 11:27 AM in response to alhoussainy

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.

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