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Apple Trademarks iCalc

sorryiwasdreami said:
The "i" never meant "internet." If that was the case, would iBook mean Internet Book? iMac, Internet Mac? iPod, Internet Pod? LOL

I believe the "i" was meant to signify "me" or "mine." Now it's definitely a marketing campaign, but still holds some water.
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Sorry, but I have to completely disagree with you. The "i" TOTALLY meant internet.

The whole purpose of the iMac was that you could get on the internet easily. The whole marketing gig was around 3 steps to get on the internet; a far cry from how difficult it was at the time on Windows.

You can see the original commercials at this site:
http://www.np.edu.sg/~pcb/macnp/different/imac.html
 
smorr said:
I agree with others, iCalc is too close to iCal. Personally, I think "Pencil" would be a better name -- As I tell my students -- do your math in Pencil. I guess by that logic, a word processor would be monikered "pen".

But Steve won't listen to me -- he hasn't yet. and I have been talking Really Loud!
:D
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I think "Logic" would be a cool name

Edit: Totally had no idea...
http://www.apple.com/logic/
 
evilbert420 said:
Sorry, but I have to completely disagree with you. The "i" TOTALLY meant internet.

The whole purpose of the iMac was that you could get on the internet easily. The whole marketing gig was around 3 steps to get on the internet; a far cry from how difficult it was at the time on Windows.

You can see the original commercials at this site:
http://www.np.edu.sg/~pcb/macnp/different/imac.html
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Yes, the "i" originally meant internet, although obviously it has been recently used for products that have very little or nothing to do with the internet. There is a thread about this here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/115968/
 
Maybe Apple plans to combine Mail, Address Book and iCal into a single application? And then be free to use iCalc for whatever they want -- be in a spreadsheet or a graphing calculator.

Not that I don’t think that this is a totally awful idea.
:)
 
although a calculator, especially a graphing calculator does a lot more i like the idea of calling it

Apple Abacus...... the name implies the 'simplicity' of use of apple apps

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as far as a name for a a spreadsheet app.... i like the name Cells that people had been throwing around before....

maybe a name like Formula, Equation, Matrix or Data

Data or Cells are better since they are simpler
 
apple is obviously cliché-ing itself when people on macrumors boards are sick of the i-names. when are we going to see something not white? and not ugly(U2IPod). Stuff that is distinctly apple yet new. that would rock! like when rock and roll bands have an "image" for an album. but when their new album comes out, their "image" gets updated? I guess? maybe?

note that graphing calculators went away in the 9 to 10 upgrade?


just thoughts.
-matt
 
tsunami2k3 said:
Yes, the "i" originally meant internet, although obviously it has been recently used for products that have very little or nothing to do with the internet. There is a thread about this here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/115968/
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I was recently listening to a seminar in the London Apple Store, and the chap said clearly that the i in iMac stood for "integrated", because of the level of integration within one computer, and i still means "integrated" as seen in the integration within iLife and iTunes. I also used to think it stood for "internet", but seemingly, unless the Apple chap has it wrong, it instead stands for "integrated".
 
james.sumners said:
Oh, and the TI-89 has a CAS that is at least better than the crap that MathCAD uses ;)
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holy CRAP, i totally agree! MathCAD sucks. Worst piece of CAS software I've ever used, no exaggeration. Who makes this crap anyway?

Maple and Mathematica, now THOSE are computer algebra systems.
 
anubis said:
holy CRAP, i totally agree! MathCAD sucks. Worst piece of CAS software I've ever used, no exaggeration. Who makes this crap anyway?

Maple and Mathematica, now THOSE are computer algebra systems.
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yeah, and all my classes in structural engineering is using mathcad. So it's not only that I am forced to use a crappy program, I can't even use my mac for my schoolwork. I have to sit and do it on the schools awful dell computers...
 
Patrik_L said:
yeah, and all my classes in structural engineering is using mathcad. So it's not only that I am forced to use a crappy program, I can't even use my mac for my schoolwork. I have to sit and do it on the schools awful dell computers...
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My university's math department uses Maple exclusively, which is cool. The Electrical Engineering department primarily uses MATLAB for various modeling and simulation and stuff. The e-mag people use quite a lot of MathCAD, it's pretty much the EE CAS, which sucks. I like Mathematica, but no one around here uses it for some reason.
 
Interesting.

I doubt it is a spreadsheet. It does not go with the theme of iWork which is naming the apps with non "i-" names.

I doubt it is a calculator since Tiger is done and the calculator has been named as Graphulator. (A mistake, in my opinion, since it is confusing when novices, switchers, and anyone who doesn't use it often goes looking for "calculator.")

I suspect it is either Apple wanting the name reserved so no one else can use it or misdirection to Microsoft to keep the pressure on them to keep pumping out Office for the Mac--with a lot of quality, which MS has failed to do in the past.
 
OK, not to contradict my prior post...

I hope it is a spreadsheet. Although Excel is the best app Microsoft makes in my opinion, it does print like crap and has so many quirky interface problems it's not even funny.

I hope Apple really crushes a spreadsheet which focuses more on presenting information rather than eclectic equations 1% of the market uses. Apple should make it powerful mathematically for business--half the equations and powerful data sorting--and put the Apple magic into presentation and layout.

With Keynote shaping up nicely, Pages a good start (with hopefully a serious and major upgrade in January to make it usable), and adding an easy to use, design forward, powerful spreadsheet, and a web designer for the rest of us, and iWork will be unstoppable.

Nothing would make me happier than to dump MS Office. But Pages needs a serious upgrade and the Excel replacement needs to be world class.

If Apple keeps the pedal to the metal on iWork with annual updates, iWork may be an MSOffice killer. It's going to take a few years of annual updates, and serious work from Apple, but it can be done. The problem with OpenOffice is it is just a free clone of MS Office. If Pages is any indication, Apple can rethink the pieces of the Office suite for the better.

One can hope and dream...
 
this takes me all the way back to Visi-calc!!

Ahh... the days of visi-calc a wonderful dos based spreadsheet that had a crap memory limit becuase it was written in d(r)os(s). But that was the 1980s for you...

I don't mine iCalc as it forms part of the naming structure, but if they are going to deliver a spreadsheet it should have a name like 'budget'. After all who is the genuis that came up with Excel for a spreadsheet name???

What would really be cool would be an Apple Spreadheet where you could import Windoze based add-ins. I use Crystal Ball but the damn thing won't run on a Mac so I ahve to use u know what to get my work done....

:mad:

Toodle pip...
 
I think 'Graphulator' sounds awful. It may be descriptive but it sounds like it was thought up in the 1980's.

iCalc is just so 'iYesterday'.

Maybe we can think up a better name.
 
TheWama said:
Yeah, like adding "Pro" on the end of their app names:
Graphulator *Pro*
That would finally draw the attention of enterprise.
"Wait, I'm professional, and the program is too!"
give me a break...
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Where am I suggesting to use "Pro"?
 
Chappers said:
Maybe we can think up a better name.
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I have no idea if any of these are already taken, but:

Abacus
Digits
Cells
Rainman :)
Pi
Quant
Quantum
Quantify
Numerator
Integer
Pro Forma


I should get more sleep...
 
lalcan said:
The spreadsheet part of iWork will be released at least until the next Macworld, and i don't think Apple would use iCalc... that name is too weak compared to Keynote and Pages, i think it would be something like Solver or Results.

iCalc seems like the dashboard's widget version of Calculator
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I like "Results"
 
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