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rye9

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Sep 20, 2005
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What does Pod mean in iPod? I understand iMac is for Mac, iBook is for book(notebook), iTunes... tunes, etc...but not iPod.
 

rye9

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zap2 said:
it's a pod for holding music, photos, Vids and Personal info

Oh, OK. I was gonna guess something like it stood for Personal something Device. I couldnt figure out something for "O". :D
 

mkrishnan

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Jan 9, 2004
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It's a reference to Apple's dream that, in the future, people will live encased in pods, doing nothing but listening to digital music and surfing the web on pristine computers, all day long, for every day of their lives. Never, ever, seeing the outside light.

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Chaszmyr

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Aug 9, 2002
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mkrishnan said:
It's a reference to Apple's dream that, in the future, people will live encased in pods, doing nothing but listening to digital music and surfing the web on pristine computers, all day long, for every day of their lives. Never, ever, seeing the outside light.

Oh man, that sounds nice ;)
 

Mord

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Aug 24, 2003
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i have one many times bigger with a pc a g4 cube and my ibook, it's called my room. :rolleyes:
 

cycocelica

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Apr 28, 2005
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Redmond, WA
mkrishnan said:
It's a reference to Apple's dream that, in the future, people will live encased in pods, doing nothing but listening to digital music and surfing the web on pristine computers, all day long, for every day of their lives. Never, ever, seeing the outside light.

oculas_homeoculas_bot.jpg

Sounds like an easy life.
 

MattyMac

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Oct 6, 2005
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mkrishnan said:
It's a reference to Apple's dream that, in the future, people will live encased in pods, doing nothing but listening to digital music and surfing the web on pristine computers, all day long, for every day of their lives. Never, ever, seeing the outside light.

oculas_homeoculas_bot.jpg
now that is just plain scary
 

CoMpX

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Jun 29, 2005
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mkrishnan said:
It's a reference to Apple's dream that, in the future, people will live encased in pods, doing nothing but listening to digital music and surfing the web on pristine computers, all day long, for every day of their lives. Never, ever, seeing the outside light.

picture

What is this called? I wanna Google it.
 

DevilDog

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Dec 12, 2005
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OMG nobody even checked Dictionary??? Shame...

"a detachable or self-contained unit on an aircraft, spacecraft, vehicle, or vessel, having a particular function"

This one is less accurate though:

an elongated seed vessel of a leguminous plant such as the pea [or apple], splitting open on both sides when ripe. <???(maybe that's a hint for future iPods....)
 

exeterbohemian

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Jan 10, 2006
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ipod is a self-contained enclosure that plays music, etc. think of it like as in agriculture. peas grow in pods. one pod contains multiple peas. now imagine your music, videos, pictures, etc. are all peas. and you can keep them all together in a single 'pod'. hence, ipod. as far as the 'i' is concerned, i attribute that to just being apple's moniker.
 

neocell

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May 23, 2005
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Pod: a structure in which the contents grow, mature, evolve into something new, and usually greater, than whence it came

Seems appropriate enough
 
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