What does the “i” stand for in iPhone, iPod, iPad etc? I looked, but couldn’t find any information on that.:dubious:
Internet.
Remember, when the iMac was first introduced (1998), the Internet wasn’t as pervasive as it is now.
It was originally used in the iMac, for which the “i” stood for “internet”, representing the ease of connecting the computer to the internet (which wasn’t quite as easy to do for the average consumer back in those dark days). It also supposedly stood for “individual” at the same time. From Wikipedia:
“Apple declared the ‘i’ in iMac to stand for “Internet”; it also represented the product’s focus as a personal device (‘i’ for “individual”).[3] Attention was given to the out-of-box experience: the user needed to go through only two steps to set up and connect to the Internet.”
I’ve always assumed that the products that followed kept using the “i” just to keep the family name.
"i"nternet, back in the 1990s with the iMac.
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I remember that many early companies used either i for information or e for electronic as prefixes.
It doesn’t mean anything. That’s the beauty of it.
Does i not sometimes stand for interactive?
Does Apple say what it stands for nowadays? Is it now ‘individual’ or does it just stand for whatever? It can’t still mean internet because the iPod didn’t have internet access for years.
It did, but only once, in 1960…
I’ve heard that quote. Where’s it from?
garygnu writes:
> It did, but only once, in 1960…
Does that also apply to 1920’s-style death rays?
There was a thread about the possible origin oif that phrase a while back.
I palindrome I
Expanding on the OP’s question, when did the first companies or products bearing the “ixxxx” name come into being? I worked for a startup named iAdvantage in 1996. I’m sure there were others way before that…right?
I thought back then everything was e-this and e-that. Did Apple change that?