"Internet pad device" I'm fairly certain no one referred to tablets as "pads" before or since the iPad. Most say "tab" or "tablet", unless it's the Asus E Pad, but I think the inspiration for that name is pretty self explanatory (ooh look we changed one letter!)
Well the i isnt. That's what it has always stood for. Whether it makes any sense or not. The iMac was the " Internet" Mac.
Likely true. Also likely true was that Apple didn't want its competitors tagging the word "computer" onto their electronic devices back in the day.
But, like a 5-year old, Apple doesn't always get everything it wants.
His argument for "i" is nonsense. The original iPod never connected to the internet, thus Apple never meant for the i to insinuate internet.
Good info, thanks.You forget that Apple's own i-Naming started with the iMac, which DID connect to the internet.
At the time the iMac was named, "i" prefixes were in vogue due to the rise of the Internet and Interactive TV / applications. Heck, there were already trademarks by others on "iPod", "iPad", "iPhoto", "iBooks", etc.
According to the ad agency who invented the name, they sold the "i" to Jobs as being able to stand for: Internet, Imagination, or Individual.
(If you really don't know the MacMan -> iMac story, please read that link.)
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